Christ The Tiger

"The average church-goer", writes Hyam Maccoby, "would be most disconcerted by a real glimpse into Eliot's mind. There is a savagery in that mind". Eliot aspired towards classicism and adopted the persona of the prim and pedantic "Mr. Eliot". But this book argues that, in his greatest poetry, Eliot was essentially a Romantic whose Christian vision was based on pagan rituals of human sacrifice. Maccoby positions Eliot's antisemitism within his artistic philosophy. The book is intended for th