A Critical Difference: T. S. Eliot and John Middleton Murry in English Literary Criticism, 1919-1928

by David Goldie

Overview

A Critical Difference is a valuable study of perhaps the most intriguing and important critical debate of the 1920s. The book offers a detailed introduction to the unjustly neglected criticism of Murry and sheds new light on T. S. Eliot's role as a polemicist and controversialist in the conflicts of literary-critical culture in the 1920s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198123798
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/31/1998
Series:	Oxford English Monographs
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	1710L (what's this?)

About the Author

University of Strathclyde

Table of Contents

IntroductionPart I. Reconstruction: Murry, Eliot, and the Athenaeum, 1919-21Reconstruction and ‘Improperganda'; Literature and the War; The Athenaeum: ‘Inward Acts and Ancestral Attitudes'; Tradition and the Dissociated Sensibility; The Perfect CriticPart II. The Criterion versus the AdelphiRemy 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 ShakespearePart III. Orthodoxy and Modernism: The Claims of Religion, 1926-28Murry, 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 OrthodoxyConclusion: Imperfect OrthodoxySelect BibliographyIndex