Name: Hirva P VoraSem: 2

Roll No: 09T. S Eliot as a Critic

His Contribution

• His Criticism has revolutionized the great writers of the past three centuries.

• His recognition of the greatness of the Metaphysical poets of the 17th century resulted in the Metaphysical revival of the 20th century.

• The credit for the renewal of interest in the Jacobean dramatists goes to Eliot.

His essay on Dante aroused curiosity for the latter middle ages and the novelty of his statements ,

hidden in sharp phrases arrests attention

• John Hayward says: “ I cannot think of a critic who has been more widely read and discussed in his own life-time; and not in English , but in almost every language, except Russian.”

• Eliot as a judge • According to Eliot , the end of criticism is to bring

readjustment between the old and the new. “ From time it is desirable , that some critic shall appear to review the past of our literature, and set the poets and the poems in a new order.

As a Critic of Tradition

• His historical sense• Views about Art• The theory of Depersonalization • His views about poetries

Thank You.