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Tag: T.S. Eliot

258. (John Dryden)

For John Dryden, the world tends towards fusion and confusion and it is for the poet to establish distinctions and … More

Alexander Pope, John Dryden, T.S. Eliot

257. (T.S. Eliot)

Since the age of 16 or 17, when I discovered the criticism of T.S. Eliot for myself, I’ve met with … More

Geoffrey Hill, rhetoric, T.S. Eliot

248. (James Thomson)

Among the reasons Thomson’s “The City of Dreadful Night” can be enjoyed is that it is a second-rate poem that … More

Dante, James Thomson, T.S. Eliot, Victorian Poetry

236. (Christopher Ricks)

What is the appeal of criticism, of reading or doing it? It must rest in beguilement at judgment itself, and … More

Christopher Ricks, Kafka, T.S. Eliot, William Empson

214. (T.S. Eliot)

When someone says that something possesses the quality of the literary, or refers to the literary or even artistic imagination, … More

Criticism, Donald Davie, T.S. Eliot, tact, the body

172. (Eugenio Montale)

  The Poetry Foundation’s website has a brief essay on Montale, helpful mostly for its generous quotations from critics and … More

Italian Poetry, Modernism, Montale, Poetry, T.S. Eliot

171. (T.S. Eliot)

  Among Eliot’s staunchest and nimblest readers, Christopher Ricks was unrelenting in his 1978 attack on Eliot’s late essay, “What … More

Christopher Ricks, Criticism, Elizabethan Drama, Geoffrey Hill, Jacobean Drama, Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot

139. (Matthew Arnold)

Showing, earlier this week, some poems I’d written to a critic I admire and trust, I received back some critical … More

Matthew Arnold, Poetry, T.S. Eliot, Victorian Poetry

131. (Ezra Pound)

Friday morning, stuck in Pound’s forty-seventh canto, a student (precocious, ambitious reader) broke me free from the jam(b) I was in: … More

Ezra Pound, Franco Morretti, James Joyce, Modernism, modernist poetry, Poetry, T.S. Eliot

118. (Geoffrey Hill)

Geoffrey Hill died last week, on June 30, at age 84. Nobody doubts that he wrote some of the greatest … More

Christopher Ricks, Contemporary Poetry, Geoffrey Hill, Poetry, Romanticism, T.S. Eliot

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