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S. Eliot (1888-1965) has been called \"by far the most important critic of the twentieth century in the English-speaking world.\" He is above all a critic of poetry and drama; he is not much interested in the novel. Eliot does not write any systematic treatise explaining his theory of poetry; it is expounded in a number of books and essays written through many years, interspersed with practical criticism or other speculations on culture. Moreover, Eliot denies having an aesthetic theory, he claims to suspect thinking abstractly about poetics. He seems to have a genuine conviction that ultimate questions are beyond the reach of the intellect, and that any attempt to define poetry is bound to failure. Eliot distrusts any criticism that aspires to a scientific knowledge of its subject:“The true critic is a scrupulous avoider of formulae: he refrains from statements which pretend to be literally true. He finds facts nowhere and approximations always. His truths are the truths of experience rather than of calculation.”  \n• Eliot made significant contributions to the field of literary criticism, strongly influencing the school of New Criticism. He was somewhat self-deprecating and minimising of his work and once said his criticism was merely a \"by-product\" of his \"private poetryworkshop\", but the critic William Empson once said, \"I do not know for certain how much of my own mind [Eliot] invented, let alone how much ofit is a reaction against him or indeed a consequence of misreading him. He is a very penetrating influence, perhaps not unlike the east wind.\"  \n• In the literary criticism, the emphasis is on the artist in isolation, cut off from his audience and from great artists and thinkers of both the present and the past. In “Tradition and the Individual Talent”(1919), Eliot attempts to cope with the isolation of the artist resulting from the early 20th century’s massive repudiation of the past, a repudiation that severed man’s intellectual and spiritual roots.  \n• Eliot deals with the implications of this disaster by defining “tradition” as an ideal structure in which the “whole of the literature of Europe from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his [the artist’s] own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.” To put it more simply, he defines tradition not as a canon but as an ongoing and fluid relationship of writers, living and dead, within the mind and bones of the contemporary poet.  \n• Eliot’s reaction against Romanticism, similarly, is related to the fact that Romanticism celebrates the artist in isolation. Eliot’s notion that modern poetry should be complex derives in part from his attempt to overcome his isolation from his readers by forcing them to become involved as collaborators in his poetry. He suggests that a text is a selfsufficient object and at the same time a construct collaboratively achieved by a reader. His account ofthe way a poet’s mind works by unifying disparate phenomena is consistent with his dialectical imagination, as is his account of literary history.  \n• In his critical essay \"Tradition and the Individual Talent\", Eliot argues that art must be understood not in a vacuum, but in the context of previous pieces of art. \"In a peculiar sense [an artist or poet] ... must inevitably be judged by the standards of the past. \"  \n• This essay was an important influence over the New Criticism by introducing the idea that the value of a work of art must be viewed in the context of the artist's previous works, a \"simultaneous order\" of works (i.e., \"tradition\") . Eliot himself employed this concept on many of his works, especially on his long-poem The Waste Land.  \n• Also important to New Criticism was the idea—as articulated in Eliot's essay \"Hamlet and His Problems\"—of an \"objective correlative\", which posits a connection among the word","cbCaimIHzExUdD4A","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimIHzExUdD4A","pdf",435689,16,"English","# New Criticism\n## T. S. Eliot and his critical focus\n## Eliot’s views: tradition, isolation, and complexity\n## Key essays and concepts\n## Influence on New Criticism and metaphysical poets","[{\"question\":\"What does New Criticism emphasize about the work of art?\",\"answer\":\"It emphasizes close attention to the poetry (and drama) itself, treating the text as a self-sufficient object while recognizing the reader’s role in constructing meaning.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Eliot define “tradition” in literary criticism?\",\"answer\":\"He defines tradition as an ideal, ongoing structure where the whole of European literature and the artist’s national literature exist simultaneously and form a single order, rather than as a fixed canon.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the “objective correlative” concept attributed to Eliot?\",\"answer\":\"It posits a connection among the text’s words, external events, mental states, and experiences, allowing a non-subjective judgment grounded in different readers’ interpretive outcomes.\"}]","New Criticism - T. 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