Abstract
T.S Eliot read and quoted the great European mystics,
among them Richard of Saint Victor and Saint John of the Cross and was
influenced by the Biblical prophets. Their works coincide not only in religious
believes, but there is a parallelism between Eliot`s linguistic devices and
style and religious concepts like the disappearance of the Ego. The expression
of the mystical experience through images implies a theory of imagination which
uses visible things to explain the invisible and provides a source for
meditation, in the same way as Eliot understands poetry as a means to make
humanity aware of its need to turn to God.
