The Use Of Poetry And The Use Of Criticism: Studies In The Relation Of Criticism To Poetry In England
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At the intersection of poetry and intellectual inquiry stands T. S. Eliot's landmark critical work, a series of lectures that argues for a dynamic and reciprocal relationship between the craft of verse and the practice of criticism in the English literary tradition. Drawing on a sweeping survey of English poetry from the Elizabethan age through the Romantic and Victorian periods, Eliot presents a rigorous examination of figures such as Sidney, Dryden, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Arnold, illuminating how each era's critical assumptions both shaped and were shaped by its poetry. With characteristic precision and erudition, he instructs readers on the dangers of divorcing aesthetic judgment from historical context, insisting that criticism divorced from the living experience of poetry becomes mere abstraction. A cornerstone of twentieth-century literary theory, this work chronicles Eliot's own evolving poetics as much as it does the history of English verse. His prose style—measured, authoritative, and laced with dry wit—carries the unmistakable authority of a poet who is also a supreme critical intelligence. For anyone serious about understanding how English literature came to be evaluated and valued, this volume poses a question that still reverberates: what, ultimately, is poetry *for*?
Author: T. S. Eliot
Format: Paperback
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At the intersection of poetry and intellectual inquiry stands T. S. Eliot's landmark critical work, a series of lectures that argues for a dynamic and reciprocal relationship between the craft of verse and the practice of criticism in the English literary tradition. Drawing on a sweeping survey of English poetry from the Elizabethan age through the Romantic and Victorian periods, Eliot presents a rigorous examination of figures such as Sidney, Dryden, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Arnold, illuminating how each era's critical assumptions both shaped and were shaped by its poetry. With characteristic precision and erudition, he instructs readers on the dangers of divorcing aesthetic judgment from historical context, insisting that criticism divorced from the living experience of poetry becomes mere abstraction. A cornerstone of twentieth-century literary theory, this work chronicles Eliot's own evolving poetics as much as it does the history of English verse. His prose style—measured, authoritative, and laced with dry wit—carries the unmistakable authority of a poet who is also a supreme critical intelligence. For anyone serious about understanding how English literature came to be evaluated and valued, this volume poses a question that still reverberates: what, ultimately, is poetry *for*?