eliotian

Of or pertaining to George Eliot (1819–1880), English novelist.

The melodramatic moment elicits a characteristic Eliotian commentary on the complexity of human will.

Of or pertaining to Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888–1965), American-born poet, playwright, and literary critic.

The poem was called Lines for Early Middle Age, and it was signed Fenella Crabbe, but it was impossible that Fenella — twenty-eight or twenty-nine — should think of herself as middle-aged, or even, being a woman and a good-looking woman although a poet, have a proleptic Eliotian image of an aged eagle with tired wings demanding to be released from the dressing-mirror.