 | Paul Giles - 1992 - 570 pages
...structure of the poet's later work. Eliot's famous phrase appears in his 1930 essay on Baudelaire: "Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely...to the perfect Christian. It is a way of affirming belief."15 It is these "paradoxical integuments," as he describes them, that O'Hara engages with in... | |
 | Kenneth Asher, Kenneth George Asher - 1998 - 220 pages
...obliged to take any stand at all. As Eliot was to write some years later in an essay on Baudelaire: "Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely...to the perfect Christian. It is a way of affirming belief."'8 The indifferent, in contrast, Eliot regards as the living dead, and it is they who make... | |
 | 230 pages
...Baudelaire's Intimate Journals (New York: Random House, 1930), p. 11, Eliot makes this illuminating remark: "Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely...perfect Christian. It is a way of affirming belief." In After Strange Cods (London: Faber and Faber, 1934), p. 52, Eliot notes that "no one can possibly... | |
 | Peter Sharpe - 2004 - 400 pages
...from the past" [210])— though, as Eliot maintained in the "Baudelaire" essay, "Genuine blasphemy ... is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible...perfect Christian. It is a way of affirming belief" (SE, 373). The "Pericles" figure of "Marina" dies out of an old life into the new life in God — it... | |
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Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian. 