T S Eliot and His religious Views

T. S. Eliot was the most acclaimed poet writing in English in the twentieth century. He is known as the most revolutionary Anglophone literary critic and had claimed the position of the most influential religious
thinker in the Anglican tradition. His social and political vision is contained in all his writings. He has been absorbed and reabsorbed by generations of English and American readers. Eliot set the philosophy of religion on a higher plane—intellectually, spiritually, and stylistically—than has ever been reached by the adherents of the socialist idea. Eliot attempted to shape a philosophy for our times that would be richer and more true to the complexity of human needs than the free-market panaceas that have so often dominated the thinking of conservatives in government. He assigned a central place in his social thinking to high culture. He was a thorough traditionalist in his beliefs but an adventurous modernist in his art, holding artistic modernism and social traditionalism to be different facets of a common enterprise. Modernism in art was, for Eliot, an attempt to salvage and fortify a living artistic tradition in the face of the corruption and decay of popular culture.