Who wrote the poem 'Ash Wednesday', published in 1930?
Ash Wednesday (poem) Ash Wednesday (poem) Ash Wednesday (sometimes "Ash-Wednesday") is the first long poem written by T. S. Eliot after his 1927 conversion to Anglicanism. Published in 1930, this poem deals with the struggle that ensues when one who has lacked faith in the past strives to move towards God. Sometimes referred to as Eliot's "conversion poem", "Ash-Wednesday", with a base of Dante's "Purgatorio", is richly but ambiguously allusive and deals with the move from spiritual barrenness to hope for human salvation. The style is different from his poetry which predates his conversion. "Ash-Wednesday" and the poems that followed had a more
Ash Wednesday (poem) 600 numbered and signed copies. Later that month an ordinary run of 2000 copies was published in the UK, and in September another 2000 published in the US. Eliot is known to have collected poems and fragments of poems to produce new works. This is most clearly seen in his poems "The Hollow Men" and "Ash-Wednesday" where he incorporated previously published poems to become sections of a larger work. Three of the five sections comprising "Ash-Wednesday" had already been published earlier as separate poems (years link to corresponding "[year] in poetry" articles): When first published, the poem bore the dedication