THE JOURNEY OF THE MAGI - TS ELIOT
THE JOURNEY OF THE MAGI - TS ELIOT Mantegna, "Adoration of the Magi", (1500). POOR TOM: The Journey of the Magi is TS Eliot’s story of his conversion – a hard and bitter struggle, where he turned from an agnostic lifestyle to become a high Anglican. Then, like the soldier returning home, he found it difficult to connect with those whose values he had previously accepted without question and who had seemed to be his friends. Indeed, Virginia Woolfe was a friend (sort of), but his conversion was met with outrage by her. She wrote to her sister, Vanessa Bell in 1928: "Then I have had a most shameful and distressing interview with poor dear Tom Eliot who may be called dead to us all from this day forward. He has become an Anglo-Catholic, believes in God and immortality and goes to church. I was really shocked. A corpse would seem to me more credible than he is. I mean, there's something obscene in a living person sitting by the fire and believing in God." Nic...