Will Gray wrote:
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> Just out of curiosity -- are you familiar with any articles on Eliot's
> connections with Little Gidding, what he thought of the earlier
> community, or George Herbert, anything of that nature?
This isn't exactly what you are looking for but it might be useful.
Taken from http://www.littlegiddingchurch.org.uk/lgchtmlfiles/lgpeople2.html
Early in 1936, on one of the poet's visits to the Society of the
Sacred Mission at Kelham Hall in Nottinghamshire, he was asked to read
and criticise the manuscript of a verse play written by one of the
members of this Anglican religious community, Brother George
Every. The play, entitled Stalemate-the King at Little Gidding dealt
with the visit of King Charles 1st in May 1646. Eliot was interested
in the idea of Christian Community as the ideal of the Christian life,
and had read about the Ferrars in earlier years: possibly 'John
Inglesant', possibly Peckard's Life: both volumes were in his library.
By the way, the Little Gidding Church is a wonderful little site.
JavaScript should be enabled.
http://www.littlegiddingchurch.org.uk
And then there is the Church of Saint Michael, East Coker
http://www.findagrave.com/pictures/1631.html
Regards,
Rick Parker
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