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June 21, 2020 • 04:54 am 30 points
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Do tell about what to focus on eliot's function of a critic

do tell about what to focus on Eliot's function of a critic

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    Deb dulal halder Halder Best Answer

      the essential function of literary criticism was “the elucidation of works of art and the correction of taste

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    “This kind of criticism of poetry by a poet, or what I have called workshop criticism, has one obvious limitation. What has no relation to the poet's own work, or what is antipathetic to him, is outside of his competence. Another limitation of workshop criticism is that the critic's judgment may be unsound outside of his own art. My valuations of poets have remained pretty constant throughout my life; in particular, my opinions about a number of living poets have remained unchanged. It is, however, not only for this reason, that what I have in mind, in talking as I am today about criticism, is the criticism of poetry. Poetry, as a matter of fact, is what most critics in the past have had in mind when generalizing about literature. The criticism of prose fiction is of comparatively recent institution, and I am not qualified to discuss it; but it seems to me to require a somewhat different set of weights and measures from poetry. It might, indeed, provide an interesting subject for some critic of criticism – one who was neither poet nor novelist – to consider the differences between the ways in which the critic must approach the various genres of literature, and between the kinds of equipment needed.”  

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    “The Frontiers of Criticism” -- “… there are limits, exceeding which in one direction literary criticism ceases to be literary, and exceeding which in another it ceases to be criticism”

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