The Dry Salvages

1941

Brasch PS3509 L43 D7

London: Faber and Faber

Pater’s secular moments of transcendence were carried on by modernist writers. In The Dry Salvages, Eliot refers to ‘the unattended / Moment, the moment in and out of time.’ In Stephen Hero, Joyce calls such a moment an epiphany, ‘a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself.’ His character Stephen believes that writers should ‘record these epiphanies with extreme care, seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments.’