Eliot was in a group with something
of this principle behind it, with Dorothy Sayers
and Charles Wlliams. It was connected with a
downtown London church. He had great affection for
the Wren buildings. I remeber seeing the point
mentioned in a Dorothy Sayers bio. I don't
think the group used the name with a capital
C, but charity was obviously their pole star.

P.

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From: Timothy Materer
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Sent: 2004-Nov-11 10:18 AM
Subject: Order of Caritas

In an essay writen by the polish poet Adam Zagajewski I found this
mention of TS: "Eliot's late directives advising poets to subject
themselves to an impersonal discipline and to enroll in the ranks of a
higher spiritual order, the order of caritas,..."
It is very important for me to find the text where TS Eliot spoke about
this "order of caritas" because till this day I was sure that this order
and its relation to poets and poetry was an invention of José Lezama
Lima, the great cuban poet.
¿Can you help me?
Thank you very much.



Ignacio Balcells
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