... intuitivism at the Sorbonne. Eliot's study of the poetry of Dante, of the English writers John Webster and John Donne, and of the French symbolist Jules Laforgue, along with the influence of his new tutor-guide Bergson, helped the young poet to find his own style - unique, ... and painful disillusionment of "the lost generation". In a series of sometimes realistic and sometimes mythological episodes, loosely linked by the legend of the search for the Grail, Eliot presented a sympathetic glimpse of a line of characters uneasily looking forward to a world order based on certainty and stabi...

• Word Count: 1915
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate