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“I should be glad of another death”: T.S. Eliot’s timeless poem for Epiphany

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With its natural imagery suggesting a spiritual coming-to-life, Eliot’s 1935 poem moves symbolically from the barrenness of winter into the verdant fertility of Christ’s arrival. […]

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