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Eliot as Poet–Critic  \n• A major figure of 20th-century poetry and an influential literary critic.  \n• Shaped critical opinion through essays, reviews, and editorial work at Faber and Faber.  \n• Wrote on multiple literary traditions with special focus on:  \n• Metaphysical poets  \n• Dante  \n• Shakespeare  \n• Immense impact on literary criticism; F. R . Leavis called his influence “a very penetrating influence, perhaps not unlike the east wind.”  \nConnect with me on @ @ NET Prep with DAKSHITA Ma'am, 5:00 PM  \nUse Code “Dakshita \" for DISCOUNT.  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \nKey Ideas in Eliot’s Criticism  \n• Emphasized difficulty in poetry.  \n• Valued metaphysical techniques, especially the conceit.  \n• Championed:  \n• Impersonality in poetry  \n• The influence of tradition on the poet  \n• Believed poetry should be judged by objective criteria, not personal emotion.  \nConnect with me on @ @ NET Prep with DAKSHITA Ma'am, 5:00 PM  \nUse Code “Dakshita \" for DISCOUNT.  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \nMajor Critical Works of T. S. Eliot:  \n• The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism – 1920  \n• Homage to John Dryden – 1924  \n• For Lancelot Andrewes – 1928  \n• The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism – 1933  \n• After Strange Gods – 1934  \n• Notes Towards the Definition of Culture – 1949  \n• On Poetry and Poets – 1957  \nConnect with me on @ @ NET Prep with DAKSHITA Ma'am, 5:00 PM  \nUse Code “Dakshita \" for DISCOUNT.  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \n• Title: The Metaphysical Poets  \n• First published: Times Literary Supplement, 20 October 1921 and later included in his influential 1932 collection, Selected Essays 1917–1932.  \n• Context: Review of H. J. C. Grierson’s anthology of Metaphysical poetry  \n• Critical importance: One of Eliot’s most influential essays redefining 17th-century poetry and modern poetic sensibility  \nConnect with me on @ @ NET Prep with DAKSHITA Ma'am, 5:00 PM  \nUse Code “Dakshita \" for DISCOUNT.  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \nPurpose and Critical Context of the Essay  \n• Eliot praises Professor Grierson for compiling poems of a generation:  \n• “More often named than read, and more often read than profitably studied.”  \n• The anthology includes both well-known and lesser-known poets:  \n• Donne, Herbert, Vaughan  \n• Aurelian Townshend  \n• Lord Herbert of Cherbury  \n• Eliot argues that Grierson’s book is not merely an anthology but:  \n• “In itself a piece of criticism, and a provocation of criticism.”  \n• Including many poems of Donne is justified because:  \n• They serve as “documents in the case of ‘metaphysical poetry’.”  \nConnect with me on @ @ NET Prep with DAKSHITA Ma'am, 5:00 PM  \nUse Code “Dakshita \" for DISCOUNT.  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \nRe-evaluation of the Term “Metaphysical”  \n• Historically, the term metaphysical had negative connotations.  \n• Eliot notes:  \n• “The phrase has long done duty as a term of abuse, or as the label of aquaint and pleasant taste.”  \n• Eliot raises two central questions:  \n• Did the metaphysical poets form a school or movement?  \n• Are they a digression from the main current of poetry?  \n• He stresses the difficulty of definition:  \n• “It is extremely difficult to define metaphysical poetry.”  \n• Equally difficult to determine:  \n• Which poets belong to it  \n• Which poems qualify as metaphysical  \nConnect with me on @ @ NET Prep with DAKSHITA Ma'am, 5:00 PM  \nUse Code “Dakshita \" for DISCOUNT.  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \nDiversity among the Metaphysical Poets  \nEliot emphasizes that the so-called metaphysical poets are not a homogeneous group.  \na) Donne and His Affiliations  \n• Donne’s poetry is:  \n• Late Elizabethan  \n• Emotionally close to Chapman  \n• Marvell and Bishop King are sometimes cl","cbCaipv1bHtT5hkP","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipv1bHtT5hkP","pdf",1388823,43,"English","# T.S. 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