The T.S. Eliot problem
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21590412 |
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| Authors | Simon During (0000-0003-2182-0668, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 683-696 |
| Publication date | 2026-05-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Textual Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-236X • E-ISSN: 1470-1308 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0950236x.2026.2651018 |
| OpenAlex | W7152750525 |
| Language | EN |
This essay argues that the conservative Anglican social critque that T.S. Eliot developed after his conversion to Anglo-Catholicism circa 1927 was of a piece with his earlier literary criticism and theory as collected in The Sacred Wood (1920). In doing so, the essay contextualises both the literary criticism and the socal critique, offering a new account of how Eliot's early literary criticism was related to the analytic philosophy being developed by George Moore, Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein around the same time
Criticism · Historical criticism · Literary criticism · Literary theory · Sociological criticism · Giambattista Vico and Joyce · Modernist Literature and Criticism · Samuel Beckett and Modernism
| Highly cited | No |
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