Eliot's Early Criticism: Philosophical Explorations into the Sacred Wood : A Reconsideration (Studien Zur Englischen Und Amerikanischen Literatur, Bd. 11)

Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien. Studien zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur. Bd. 11 Herausgegeben von Gunter Ahrends. This study assesses the relationship between Philosophy and Literary Criticism, in casu the bearing of Eliot's philosophical dissertation Knowledge and Experience on his first book of criticism The Sacred Wood. Contents: Eliot's concept of Criticism and Aristotle's Poetics - The philosophical premises of The Sacred Wood and of its critical idiom.