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 ...

Eliot was the begetter of The Criterion. He would edit it throughout its existence, until it closed, in January, 1939. In the years between the two World Wars, during which he surveyed—and held ...

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 ...

Day-Lewis. Of American poets born after the Civil War, Pound and Eliot have the strongest claim on long attention, though both in recent years have fallen under the ...