It is no surprise that, by attempting to live up to Eliot’s vision of criticism, The New Criterion early on found itself at odds with the spirit of the age. How should we understand that spirit? Ours ...

The 433-line poem, divided into five sections, first appeared in the United Kingdom in October 1922 in The Criterion, Eliot’s own literary quarterly that launched that same month. And it ...

For 16 years the most distinguished literary quarterly in the English language has been The Criterion, published in London under the editorship of T. S. Eliot. The current issue carries Editor ...

Is April, as T. S. Eliot said in The Waste Land, the “cruellest month”? For most people, we suspect, the jury is still out on that question. For many academic bureaucrats and other recipients of ...

Task forces of scholars are probably even now forming up, all determined to ignore Eliot’s advice, promulgated over many critical, rigorous years in the Criterion, that a work of art must ...

The Criterion faithful are very happy — standing out in the rain on a cold Saturday morning, hundreds of them, waiting in a line that stretches several blocks. Three fans, Daniel Solis ...

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Criterion restores and redistributes classic films – such as Citizen Kane and King Kong. The company filled a closet with its collection of restored movies, and it's traveling to various cities ...