College sophomores trying to pick their way through "The Wasteland" by T.S. Eliot (1921-22) can be forgiven for missing any pre-Christian overtones in such lines as "I think we are in rat's alley," and "we are the hollow men."
It comes as a bit of a surprise that the Tour Guide through the Wasteland had been mulling over Christianity all his life. He made it offical when he was baptized as an Anglican in 1927.
In 1943 came the Christian-themed "Four Quartets" while Eliot served as an air raid warden during the Blitz and after the war rushed to Germany to lecture on literature to those who were once his country's enemies. Quite a remarkable journey.