The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England

T.S. Eliot

ISBN 10: 0674931505 / ISBN 13: 9780674931503

Editore: Harvard University Press, 1986

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149 pages. The Charles Eliot Norton lectures of 1932-1933. Includes Preface to the Edition of 1964. Topics include Dryden, the English Romantic poets, and Matthew Arnold. Trade paperback, gray wraps sunned to aquamarine along spine, light wear to corners, very faint foxing to edges, pages bright. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, his underscoring and/or marginalia in light pencil on approximately 25 pages.

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• Titolo: The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1986
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0674931505
• ISBN 13: 9780674931503
• Rilegatura: Soft cover
• Condizione: Very Good
• Peso: 1 libbra
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Literary criticism
  • T.S. Eliot

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The 1932-33 Norton Lectures are among the best and most important of Eliot's critical writings. Tracing the rise of literary self-consciousness from the Elizabethan period to his own day, Eliot does not simply examine the relation of criticism to poetry, but invites us to "start with the supposition that we do not know what poetry is, or what it does or ought to do, or of what use it is; and try to find out, in examining the relation of poetry to criticism, what the use of both of them is" Eliot begins with the appearance of poetry criticism in the age of Dryden, when poetry became the province of an intellectual aristocracy rather than part of the mind and popular tradition of a whole people. Wordsworth and Coleridge, in their attempt to revolutionize the language of poetry at the end of the eighteenth century, made exaggerated claims for poetry and the poet, culminating in Shelley's assertion that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of mankind" And, in the doubt and decaying moral definitions of the nineteenth century, Arnold transformed poetry into a surrogate for religion. By studying poetry and criticism in the context of its time, Eliot suggests that we can learn what is permanent about the nature of poetry, and makes a powerful case for both its autonomy and its pluralism in this century.