T. S. 엘리엇은 콘라드, 조이스, 파운드, 베케트, 그리고 동시대의 다른 위대한 작가와 마찬가지로 망명자적 상상력을 가지고 있었다. 자신이 태어난 곳을 떠나온 작가들은 자신이 낯선 세상의 이방인이라는 것을 인식하고 있었다. 본 논문은 귀환에 대한 열망이 엘리엇의 주요시에 미 친 영향을 중심으로, 1914년부터 1950년대 후반까지 엘리엇이 느꼈던 이질감과 상실감을 논의하고자 한다. 황무지는 개인적·문화적 망명, 재의 수요일은 망명의 고통과 귀 환에 대한 희망을 노래한 송가, 네 사중주는 망명을 평생에 걸친 영 혼의 오디세이로 다시 표현한 작품이다.

Dante is one of those poets, Eliot once said, that one only grows up to at the end of one’s life. In Eliot’s work, growing up to (learning from) his Italian master has three primary dimensions. The first is psychological, and it has to do with a perception, in reading, of feelings and ideas as unified. The second is aesthetic, and it has to do with poetry, with understanding how to achieve such unification in art. And the third is moral, and it has to do with social and spiritual unification through the cultivation of humility.

A major theme of Eliot’s work is the difficulty of genuine and lasting human connection. Connection can be based on a positive (love) or a negative (guilt). The thesis of this essay is that certain shared actions constitute a tie that binds―especially shared actions that have been concealed, secrets kept between two guilty parties. Complicity in such actions binds partners together socially, psychologically, and morally. “Friendships” based on shared secret sins last for a lifetime; they can be denied, but they cannot be nullified, and finally, they must be acknowledged in public. In The Elder Statesman, crime, sex, and blood (family) are the ties that bind.

T. S. Eliot’s career began with a struggle between poetry and philosophy. The agon featured Dante, whose work informed Eliot’s earliest poems, and F. H. Bradley, whose thought was 배e subject of his Ph.D. thesis. Eliot's most detailed discussion of the connection between poetry and philosophy is contained in his 1926 Clark Lectures at Cambridge University, published as Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry. He defines the “philosophic poet" in Bradleyean terms as one who 객비arges immediate experience" by “drawing within the orbit of feeling and sense what had existed only in thought" (VMP 55,51). Philosophic poetry is work of the “highest intensity, in which the thought is fused into poetry at a very high temperature" (VMP 50). Eliot argues that Dante’s poetη perfectly i1Iustrates the integration of feeling and intel1igence, both in life and in art. 1n tbis paper, 1 explore Eliot’s allempt to negotiate the c1aims of philosophy and poetry, as represented by Bradley and Dante, and his ultimate decision to abandon a promising career in philosophy for a tenuous career in poetry. Eliot's ambition of becoming a 개bilosophic poet," combining Bradley and Dante, was realized in bis Dantean sequences Ash-Wednesday and Four Quartets.