W. David Soud, Divine Cartographies: God, History and Poeisis in W. B. Yeats, David Jones, and T. S. Eliot

Abstract

Religion is once more respectable, or at least discussable, as a constituent of serious literature. Despite taking J. Hillis Miller’s classic study The Disappearance of God as a starting-point for his examination of the religious element central to the work of three poets, W. David Soud moves on at once to an investigation of the fact that, for all of them, ‘even after the Great War,… “theological experience” was often the overriding consideration, and it determined a great deal about some of..