T.S. Eliot As Critic
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Authors
Lindemann, Elizabeth Ann
Issue Date
1969
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Thesis
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en_US
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Because there is a persistent, nagging feeling that there is something in literature which transcends literature. That the
words on the page are not "where it's at" in literature, that
what is essential in verbal communication is finally non-verbal-that
is, that the highest function of literature cannot be
accounted for in literary terms. But man can hardly accept this
paradox. "The human mind will not easily or for long put up with
the indefinite, the imprecise, and the shapeless. All men crave
forms and standards. We take delight in recognition."
Criticism, as Eliot said, is indeed not something to be defended,
but something to be accepted as inevitable.
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71 p.
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