Christian Romanticism: T. S. Eliot's Response to Percy Shelley
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Chapter 1:  Eliot and Shelley: Influence, Renunciation, and Accommodation
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Chapter One

Eliot and Shelley: Influence, Renunciation, and Accommodation

Shelley drove Eliot to frenzy. His reactions show a kind of schizophrenia, alternately belittling and praising Shelley for the same trait. […] These alternations suggest a mind divided against itself, at once enormously susceptible to Shelley and distrustful of that very susceptibility.

– George Bornstein1