: His work acted as a form of "Socratic self-criticism," disturbing a society drifting toward moral bankruptcy.
Kirk uses Eliot's career to distinguish between three competing forces: : Guided by virtue, wisdom, and tradition. Eliot and his age : T.S. Eliot's moral imaginat...
: Kirk identifies the subjects of Eliot's poem The Hollow Men as those lacking moral imagination, instead enslaved by appetites and "diabolic" distractions. : His work acted as a form of
In his seminal work Eliot and His Age: T. S. Eliot’s Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century , Russell Kirk frames T.S. Eliot as the preeminent man of letters who used "moral imagination" to confront the spiritual and cultural decay of the 1900s. The Core Concept: Moral Imagination Eliot and his age : T.S. Eliot's moral imaginat...