T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot, the towering modernist poet, was raised Unitarian and passed through a bleak agnosticism before being quietly baptized and confirmed in the Church of England in 1927. He kept the step private, but it reordered his life and his art — from the desolation of The Waste Land toward the hard-won hope of his later poems.

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