Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

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The Journey of the Magi

The Journey of the Magi

T. S. Eliot, 1927

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In 1926, the poet T. S. Eliot, a man of immense learning and relentless thought, entered the Anglican Church and became a Christian.  “Oh dear,” said the novelist Virginia Woolf.  “How can we invite him to our parties now?”  For she and her husband, like all of the people in their fashionable set, were atheists.  For Eliot to become a Christian, in her …

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