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Desire and the Ascetic Ideal: Buddhism and Hinduism in the Works of T. S. Eliot

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"T.S. Eliot was crucially influenced by his early engagement with Indian texts, and when analyzed through this lens, his poems reveal a criticism of the attachments of human desire and the suggestion that asceticism might hold out the possibility that desire can be cultivated toward a metaphysical absolute. Centering his study of sources from ancient India, this new book offers a rereading of the poet's work, analyzing his unpublished graduate school notebooks on Indian philosophy and exploring Eliot's connection with ...

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Desire and the Ascetic Ideal: Buddhism and Hinduism in the Works of T. S. Eliot 2023, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville

ISBN-13: 9780813949994

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Desire and the Ascetic Ideal: Buddhism and Hinduism in the Works of T. S. Eliot 2023, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville

ISBN-13: 9780813949987

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