San Antonio College Library

A study to discover if the creative mind at work tends to adopt the patterns of primative consciousness by searching the myths, & mysteries of anthropology, psychology and aesthetics.

Primitive and metropolitan life nourished T. S. Eliot's imagination and emerged as recurrent themes in his work. Examining these twin concerns, Robert Crawford sheds new light on the poet's achievement--particularly those works that culminated in The Waste Land and Sweeney Agonistes--and clarifies Eliot's relentless obsession with "savages" and sophisticates.