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Although Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester and head of one of the companies of translators of the King James Bible, was known throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries for his Preces Privatae (Private Prayers), Eliot’s essay on him in 1928 helped greatly to restore him to a place of prominence among the great sermon writers of the Church of England and, indeed, in the language. The lead essay in For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays on Style and Order, the subject of this chapter, reveals a latent theory of both reading and writing, one that proves essential to proper understanding of Eliot.
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T.S. Eliot, For Lancelot Andrewes: Essays on Style and Order (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1929).
See the magisterial work by Donald Gallup, T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography. Rev. and extended ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1969).
T.S. Eliot, “The Metaphysical Poets,” Homage to John Dryden (London: Hogarth, 1924).
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1943).
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Atkins, G.D. (2013). Eliot Reading Lancelot Andrewes. In: T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word: Intersections of Literature and Christianity. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137381637_2
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