MARION MONTGOMERY was a poet, novelist, and critic who taught English at the University of Georgia for more than thirty years. His most recent books include With Walker Percy at the Tupperware Party: In Company with Flannery O'Connor, T. S. Eliot, and Others, and Hillbilly Thomist: Flannery O'Connor, St. Thomas and the Limits of Art, as well as On Matters Southern: Essays About Literature and Culture, 1964-2000.
The essay is itself a celebration and a sustained and studied
recognition of the wholeness of Eliot's poetry. It is a formidable
and valuable discourse.
*American Literature*
Marion Montgomery's essay on T. S. Eliot is a sensitive and
informed reading of the major poems. I have learned for the first
time how to read "Ash Wednesday" and "Prufrock." The book deserves
wide circulation as a fresh contribution to our understanding of
Eliot's Christianity.
*Allen Tate*
Marion Montgomery is just the sort of astute critic that Eliot
himself called for thirty-five years ago. In tracing Eliot's
progress from the romantic stance of "Prufrock" to the triumph of
the timeless moment in Four Quartets, Montgomery sheds considerable
light on many of the major poetic impulses of our age.
*Walter Sullivan*
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