Theory and Personality - The Significance of T. S. Eliot's Criticism

T. S. Eliot''s literary criticism is often described as ''the criticism of a poet''. Mr Lee asks what happens if we take that description seriously and read the criticism as if it was as much the expression of the man, it its way, as the poetry; continuous with the poetry and the preoccupations of the poetry. This essay in interpretation is an attempt to follow out such a programme and to account for the contradictions and seemingly discrepant utterances that Eliot himself left unexplained. The opening chapter offers an outline of Eliot''s main ''theories'' and the connection between them, and subsequent chapters deal with critical approaches to Eliot; ''Tradition and the Individual Talent'' and impersonality; Eliot''s ideas on personality; and the relation between individual personality and society.>

List of contents

Prefatory: Eliot's Four 'Theories'
I Critical Responsibility and Critical Approach
II Impersonality: 'Sacrifice' or 'Extinction'?
III Personality and the Proper Relation
IV Conclusion: Self and Society
Bibliography
Notes
Index

Product details

• Authors: Brian Lee
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2013
• EAN: 9781472513700
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-1370-0
• No. of pages: 148
• Series: Bloomsbury Academic Collection; Bloomsbury Academic Collection; Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets