Points of View

NOTE

This selection of T. S. Eliot's critical writings has been made and edited, with the author's approval, by John Hayward. It contains representative passages, ranging from a single paragraph to a complete essay, and has been designed as an introduction to the author's work in prose. Titles have been supplied by the editor and the source and date of composition are given at the end of each passage.

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contents:

Part I: Literary Criticism
The Function of Criticism--Criticism--The Experience of Literature--
Tradition--Tradition and the Individual Talent--Poetry and Philosophy--
Romantic" and "Classic--Journalism and Literature--
The Appreciation of Poetry--The Critic of Poetry--"Difficult" Poetry--
Poetic Imagery--Metrical Innovation--Auditory Imagination

Part 2: Dramatic Criticism
Poetic Drama--Greek Drama--The Pattern of Shakespeare--
The Unity of Shakespeare--Ben Jonson--Middleton's "Changeling"

Part 3: Individual Authors
Dissociation of Sensibility--Marvell--Blake--
Coleridge--Wordsworth--Arnold--
Walter Pater and "Marius The Epicurean"--Tennyson--
Thomas Hardy--The Pens?es of Pascal--Baudelaire

Part 4: Religion and Society
Christianity and Society--Christian" or "Pagan--War--
Private Religions--The Reformation of Society--
The Strait Gate--A Christian Community--
Society and the Arts--Religion and Literature--
Church and State--Conformity to Nature--
Modern Education--The Decay of the Music-Hall