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21 de nov. de 2020 · A web page that explores the critical essays of T. S. Eliot, a prominent poet and critic of the twentieth century. It analyzes his views on topics such as tradition, classicism, metaphysical poetry, and the function of criticism.
- Analysis of T.S. Eliot’s Function
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- Analysis of T.S. Eliot’s Function
His sense of historical perversity was pretty complete. Eliot was a modern partly by temperament. He made a show, in his criticism, of depreciating writers to whom he owed a good deal of his voice as a poet and his principles as a critic. But he was a modern by circumstance, as well.
A summary and analysis of Eliot's 1923 essay, which argues that criticism should be based on objective facts and tradition, not on subjective opinions and inner voices. Eliot contrasts the classical and romantic approaches to art and criticism, and claims that the best critics are co-operative and objective.
The depiction of Jews in some of Eliot's poems has led several critics to accuse him of antisemitism, most forcefully in Anthony Julius' book T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form (1996). [110] [111] In " Gerontion ", Eliot writes, in the voice of the poem's elderly narrator, "And the jew squats on the window sill, the owner ...
Ren? Wellek analyzes Eliot's influence, theory, and practice of poetry in this chapter from his History of Modern Criticism. He examines Eliot's concepts of impersonality, tradition, language, belief, and the history of English poetry.
Literary criticism, for Eliot, might launch, then soar. Nonetheless, it should have firm foundations: tradition, order, precision, and criteria. In the year of this review, Eliot had just emerged from the pseudonym, Crites, champion of the ancients, under which he had written his regular editorial “Commentaries” for the Criterion.
