Poetry as Theology in Eliot Stevens and Joyce. Religion has become suspect in literary studies, often for good reason, as it has becomeassociated with reactionary politics and outdated codified beliefs.nbsp In iModernist Reformations Poetry as Theology in Eliot, Stevens, and Joyce/i, the author demonstrates how three high modernist writers work to reform religious experience for an age dominated by the extremes of radical skepticism and dogmatic rigidity. The author offers new and provocative readings of these well-studied writers Joyce and Stevens are usually considered purely secular, and the Eliot in this book