This was fine. Edwards wanted to write a book about poetry in the Old Testament and TS Eliot. He wrote a dull treatise on a very broad topic instead. It is not long.

First of all it's kind of hard to do an exegesis against exegesis, because this whole thing is opposed paraphrase or straying from text, which is fair enough but then how do you write a book? It's difficult to make a compelling argument expounding upon this when you set yourself up to oppose it. The source material is rich, and under plumbed here.

Too much Old Testament. Particularly from someone who reads Koine but not Hebrew. Just do what you're good at, or what you could read yourself.

Too many references to a narrow band of modernist poets: Eliot, Pound. Way too much Eliot. It comes across under researched. The Bible is the source material for so much stuff that you could just pick up any book and make this connection.

Lastly Edwards is English but wrote this in French and had it translated, which in itself is suspect.

Just read the Bible instead.