Eliot is profoundly and deeply and wonderfully civilization affirming, conservative, traditional, etc...whatever good adjectives you want to apply to apply to him.
To criticize Eliot at all in this way is to cut off one of the most important thinkers/creators of culture in the 20th century....which was of course an especially horrific time.
He’s different from Lewis. But just as important.
I should have excerpted differently!