A Critical Difference
T. S. Eliot and John Middleton Murry in English Literary Criticism, 1919-1928
David Goldie
Price: £67.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-812379-8
Publication date: 22 October 1998
224 pages, 216x138 mm
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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| - ''a welcome addition to our understanding of the sea-changes of inter-war literary journalism ... admirable ... this intelligent and closely argued monograph'' - Jason Harding, Cambridge Quarterly
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| Description | | - A valuable study of perhaps the most intriguing and important critical debate of the 1920s
- Offers a detailed introduction to the unjustly neglected criticism of John Middleton Murry
- Sheds new light on T. S. Eliot's role as a polemicist and controversialist in the conflicts of literary-critical culture in the 1920s, and explores the contexts of several of his better-known essays
| | A Critical Difference
is a detailed study of perhaps the most intriguing and important literary-critical dialogue of the 1920s. Goldie places the critical writing of T. S. Eliot and John Middleton Murry firmly in the context of a contentious post-war literary culture and argues for the need to read their work as a series of interventions within that culture. The book traces the development
of their criticism from early collaboration on the Athenaeum
through to the rivalries between Eliot's Criterion
and Murry's Adelphi
. It explores the informing contexts of several of Eliot's better-known essays and sheds new light on his role as a polemicist and critical controversialist.
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| Contents |
Introduction
Part I. Reconstruction: Murry, Eliot, and the Athenaeum
, 1919-21
Reconstruction and `Improperganda'; Literature and the War; The Athenaeum
: `Inward Acts and Ancestral Attitudes'; Tradition and the Dissociated Sensibility; The Perfect Critic
Part II. The Criterion
versus the Adelphi
Remy de Gourmont and the Problem of Style; After the Athenaeum
; The Criterion
and the Adelphi
; Romanticism and Classicism; Murry's Romantic Historiography; Hulme and Classicism; Murry and a Romantic Tradition; Keats and Shakespeare
Part III. Orthodoxy and Modernism: The Claims of Religion, 1926-28
Murry, Moral Relativism, and Modernism; `Life', Liberalism, and Organized Christianity; The Life of Jesus
; The Classical Revival; Reason and Romanticism; Towards a Synthesis; Some Problems of Orthodoxy
Conclusion: Imperfect Orthodoxy
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Index
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| Authors, editors,
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David Goldie, Lecturer, Department of English Studies, University of Strathclyde
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