Editing T. S. Eliot (section)

===Conversion to Anglicanism and British citizenship===
[[File:T.S. Eliot house.jpg|thumb|upright|The [[Faber & Faber]] building where Eliot worked from 1925 to 1965; the commemorative plaque is under the right-hand arch.]]
On 29 June 1927, Eliot converted from [[Unitarianism]] to [[Anglicanism]], and in November that year he took [[British nationality law|British citizenship]], thereby renouncing his United States citizenship in the event he had not officially done so previously.<ref>{{cite web | last=Boyagoda | first=Randy | title=T.S. Eliot, American | website=The American Conservative | date=21 July 2015 | url=https://www.theamericanconservative.com/t-s-eliot-american/}}</ref>
He became a [[churchwarden]] of his parish church, [[St Stephen's, Gloucester Road]], London, and a life member of the [[Society of King Charles the Martyr]].<ref>Plaque on interior wall of Saint Stephen's</ref><ref>Obituary notice in ''Church and King'', Vol. XVII, No. 4, 28 February 1965, pg. 3.</ref> He specifically identified as [[Anglo-Catholic]], proclaiming himself "[[Classicism|classicist]] in literature, [[royalist]] in politics, and anglo-catholic {{sic}} in religion".<ref>Specific quote is "The general point of view [of the essays] may be described as classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and anglo-catholic {{sic}} in religion", in preface by T. S. Eliot to ''For [[Lancelot Andrewes]]: Essays on style and order'' (1929).</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081215082548/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,756146,00.html Books: Royalist, Classicist, Anglo-Catholic], ''Time'', 25 May 1936.</ref>

About 30 years later Eliot commented on his religious views that he combined "a Catholic cast of mind, a Calvinist heritage, and a Puritanical temperament".<ref>{{cite book|last=Eliot|first=T. S.|title=On Poetry and Poets|year=1986|publisher=Faber & Faber|location=London|isbn=978-0571089833|page=[https://archive.org/details/onpoetrypoets00elio/page/209 209]|url=https://archive.org/details/onpoetrypoets00elio/page/209}}</ref> He also had wider spiritual interests, commenting that "I see the path of progress for modern man in his occupation with his own self, with his inner being" and citing [[Goethe]] and [[Rudolf Steiner]] as exemplars of such a direction.<ref>Radio interview on 26 September 1959, ''Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk'', as cited in {{cite book|last=Wilson|first=Colin|title=Beyond the Occult|publisher=Bantam Press|location=London|year=1988|pages=335–336}}</ref>

One of Eliot's biographers, [[Peter Ackroyd]], commented that "the purposes of [Eliot's conversion] were two-fold. One: the [[Church of England]] offered Eliot some hope for himself, and I think Eliot needed some resting place. But secondly, it attached Eliot to the English community and English culture."<ref name="learner.org"/>