A Homemade Heaven: Modernist Poetry and the Social Gospel.

A chapter of the book "There Before Us: Religion, Literature and Culture from Emerson to Wendell Berry," is presented. It mentions Hugh Kenner's "A Homemade World," as the source of the title of the essay. It discusses how the tenets of the social gospel are shown in the poetry of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot and how they are seen as a critique of the American social gospel movement. It cites the meeting of the social gospel reform and modern poetry as they respond to a culture where authority, self work and professionalism are changing their foundations.