F. R. Leavis described St. Mawr as "present[ing] a creative and technical originality not less remarkable than that of The Waste Land." And with regard to The Man Who Died, William York Tindall has written, "By remaking the story of Jesus, as he remade the story of dying and returning Quetzalcoatl, Lawrence meant to improve Christianity - to make a 'real living religion' out of it."

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