His Age : T.s. Eliot's Moral Imaginat... | Eliot And

In his seminal work Eliot and His Age: T. S. Eliot’s Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century , Russell Kirk frames T.S. Eliot as the preeminent man of letters who used "moral imagination" to confront the spiritual and cultural decay of the 1900s. The Core Concept: Moral Imagination

: Kirk identifies the subjects of Eliot's poem The Hollow Men as those lacking moral imagination, instead enslaved by appetites and "diabolic" distractions.

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: A delight in the perverse and subhuman, which Kirk saw in modern sensationalism and violence. Available Editions of the Report

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: Eliot used this imagination to describe the "abyss" society falls into when it rejects inner and outer order. Eliot vs. His Age Eliot as the preeminent man of letters who

: His work acted as a form of "Socratic self-criticism," disturbing a society drifting toward moral bankruptcy.