Many readers saw The waste land as the definitive cultural satement of its time, but it was not definitive for Eliot. In fact, for Eliot himself the poem may have been much less broadly conceived and, above all, an indirect confession of personal discord. Whatever the fate of culture, the individual needed to work for personal certainty. In a preface to the collection of essays For Lancelot Andrewes (1928) he declared himself a "classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and anglo-catholic in religion." After The Hollow men and the Sweeneypoems, which continue The Waste Land's critique of modern civilization, he turned increasingly to poems of religious doubt and reconciliation, The Journey of the Magi and Ash Wednesday are poems about the search for a faith that is desperately needed, yet difficult to sustain. The Four Quartets, begun with Burnt Norton in 1934 and completed in 1943, are poems written after his conversion to Anglicanism; they are not so much reports of secure faith as dramatizations of the difficult process of arriving at belief. In this process Eliot found a center for his own life as well as for his later poetry. The Four Quartets incorporate a good deal of the discursive and expository, elements that he had objected to in his earlier essays and dropped from his earlier poems.
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