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Lecture Literary criticism - Lecture 32: Eliot’s contribution to the history of English criticism

Eliot’s criticism seems to be assured of an even more permanent and significant place in the history of English literature than his poetry.He played a significant part in the reassessment of the past writers to suit the modern sensibility His anti-romantic insistence on an outside authority as against the inner voice brought afresh attitude to English criticism. He absorbed various influences from the past, but absorbed them so well that they have become a part of him. | Eliot’s contribution to the History of English Criticism Eliot’s criticism seems to be assured of an even more permanent and significant place in the history of English literature than his poetry.He played a significant part in the reassessment of the past writers to suit the modern sensibility His anti-romantic insistence on an outside authority as against the inner voice brought afresh attitude to English criticism. He absorbed various influences from the past, but absorbed them so well that they have become a part of him. Therein lies his greatness Eliot belongs to the line of poet critics extending from Sidney down to the modern age, a line that includes Ben Johnson. Dryden, Dr. Johnson, Coleridge, and Arnold. Eliot being a practicing poet, misstatements on poetry and poets carried an additional authority., and a greater conviction He called his criticism “by- product of my poetical workshop”. After Arnold,Eliot argued that criticism was a complementary activity to that of . | Eliot’s contribution to the History of English Criticism Eliot’s criticism seems to be assured of an even more permanent and significant place in the history of English literature than his poetry.He played a significant part in the reassessment of the past writers to suit the modern sensibility His anti-romantic insistence on an outside authority as against the inner voice brought afresh attitude to English criticism. He absorbed various influences from the past, but absorbed them so well that they have become a part of him. Therein lies his greatness Eliot belongs to the line of poet critics extending from Sidney down to the modern age, a line that includes Ben Johnson. Dryden, Dr. Johnson, Coleridge, and Arnold. Eliot being a practicing poet, misstatements on poetry and poets carried an additional authority., and a greater conviction He called his criticism “by- product of my poetical workshop”. After Arnold,Eliot argued that criticism was a complementary activity to that of creativity.There is evidence of ken perception and acumen in he remarks made by Eliot,especially in regard to the problems of his times,both as the critic and the poet.The virtues of a good critic-sensitiveness,erudition,sense of fact,generalizing power are to be found in emits’ critical pronouncements. At the same time,here is the vision of a creative artist,too.His early criticism is indeed a defence of his own poetry,(as workshop criticism is bound to be),but that is so because he was writing a new kind of poetry.It was necessary to educate taste so that this different kind of poetry would find an audience. The mass of Eliot’s reviews,essays and published lectures fall into three periods.He terms the first period the “Pre-Christian” decade(1919-1928),in which there is a literary pre-occupation,mainly with the sixteenth and seventeenth century dramatists and poets.To this period belong the Sacred Woods(1920),Homage to John Dryden:Three Essay(1924),and for Lancelot Andrews(1928). The second