Volume 54, Number 19 · December 6, 2007
Auden and God
By Edward Mendelson
Auden and Christianity
by Arthur Kirsch
Yale University Press, 207 pp., $30.00
T.S. Eliot thought of religion as 'the still point in the turning world,' 'the heart of light,' 'the crowned knot of fire,' 'the door we never opened'—something that remained inaccessible, perfect, and eternal, whether or not he or anyone else cared about it, something absolutely unlike the sordid transience of human life.
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