The Sacred Wood (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: T. S. Eliot
- First Published: 1920
- Type of Work: Critical essays
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, Writing, Drama or dramatists, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays
Critical Evaluation:
Matthew Arnold, says Eliot, was not so much engaged in establishing a criticism as in striking at the uncritical; he was less a critic than an advocate and champion of criticism. These statements about Arnold are only partly true, but they are helpful. They are equally helpful, while again only partly true, if applied to Eliot himself. For Eliot is not only a critic of literature but also, as the subtitle of this volume suggests, a critic of criticism. In the first group of essays in THE SACRED WOOD this fact is made particularly clear.
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