After Strange Gods. A Primer of Modern Heresy. The Page-Barbour Lectures at the University of Virginia 1933.

ELIOT, T.S. (1888-1965).

New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1934. [Literary criticism] FIRST US EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[2] 72 [6]. Publisher's dark red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at $1.25 to front flap. Internally bright and clean, some words of text lightly underlined in pencil. Rear blanks yet unopened. Ownership signature in black ink to front pastedown. Mild toning to jacket with some light chipping/edgewear. A write-up of three lectures Eliot gave at the University of Virginia, following up on the ideas expressed in his famous essay 'Tradition and the Individual Talent.' Namely, that modern literature is impoverished by a gradual, global loss of religion since the turn of the 20th century. Item #74304

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