엘리엇의 改宗

• 영문명: T. S. Eliot’s Conversíon T. S. Eliot’s Conversíon
• 발행기관: 한국T.S.엘리엇학회
• 저자명: 이창배(Chang-bai Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『T. S. 엘리엇연구』제1호, 1~16쪽, 전체 16쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 1993.12.30

영문 초록

This article which was originally written for a chapter included in the writer’s A Study η T. S. Eliot (Seoul, 1988) aims at investigating the na ture of T. S Eliot’s spiritual venture before and after his conversion to the Church of England. Though Eliot was born and grown in Unitarian family backgrond, he could not feel attached to the ’materialistic’ unorthdox Chris-tianity. When he failed to awaken to religious emotions in his early years, Eliot as “the type of one kind of religious sceptic, had to endure his loneliness and suffering for his long hesitation and painfuf soul-searching. For Eliot there was no sudden grace but a long period of doubt and soli-tude. Eliot’s conversion was not a dramatic change, but only an expansion or development of interest. He did not turn from atheism to belief but from spiritual self-reliance to the support of a Church. He was attracted, for this reason, to the intelligent believers like Lancelot Andrews, Pascal, Dante and SO on. They were his life models, and their biographical essays he wrote for many occasions reflect an image of himself. What all Eliot’s models have in common is the pattern of a life in which spiritual struggles are link-ed to Church‘ His words on Pascal, “His despair, his disillusion… are sen-tial moment in the progr s of the intellectual soul can be said on himself. And it can also be said that Eliot s poetical works from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Wasle La :d， through Four Quartets are his autobiographical writings as personal grievances.