Download or read book T. S. Eliot’s Ascetic Ideal written by Joshua Richards and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T. S. Eliot’s Ascetic Idealcharts an intellectual history of T. S. Eliot’s interaction with asceticism. Eliot’s early encounters with the ascetic ideal began a lifetime of interplay and reflection upon self-denial, purgation, and self-surrender.