Subscribers to the St. Austin Review will be familiar with the writing and wisdom of Donald DeMarco, who has been a regular contributor to StAR over the years. In today’s Crisis he waxes lyrical on the connection between Blessed John Paul II and T. S. Eliot, especially in their respective critiques of the culture of death.

Although DeMarco makes the faux pas of describing Eliot as an Anglo-Catholic at the time that “The Waste Land” was written, whereas, in fact, Eliot did not convert to Anglo-Catholicism until six years later, his analysis of Eliot’s poem is full of perceptive insight. Here’s the link: 

http://www.crisismagazine.com/2013/the-cultures-of-life-and-death-in-poetry?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CrisisMagazine+%28Crisis+Magazine%29