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Abstract This article examines three of the greatest writers of Christian poetry in English during the twentieth century. They were converts of varying kinds, whose conversions were fundamentally involved with their special geniuses as poets. David Jones (1895–1973), whose conversion carried him least far, from a not very sacramental Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism, moved because of his understanding of symbolism. W. H. Auden (1907–73) returned, from Anglicanism through unbelief and Marxism, to Anglicanism again, through his awareness of inspiration, of guilt, and of what he learnt from Kierkegaard, to call the three stages of the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious. T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) moved in the widest arc, from Unitarianism, which in later life he did not count as Christian, through agnosticism and a close encounter with Buddhism, to Anglicanism at its most sacramental, by an engagement with time and consciousness that took him all his poetic life.
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