Puts T S Eliot and Wallace Stevens in juxtaposition and attempts to highlight the differences and similarities of their responses to the same issues or the same works. This book examines issues such as the nature and status of poetry, religious belief or disbelief, and political engagement or the lack thereof.
Leon Surette is professor emeritus, English, the University of Western Ontario, and the author of The Birth of Modernism, Pound in Purgatory, and A Light From Eleusis.