e/The Frontiers of Criticism

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has gloss	eng: "The Frontiers of Criticism" is a lecture given by T. S. Eliot at the University of Minnesota in 1956. It was reprinted in On Poetry and Poets, a collection of Eliots critical essays, in 1957. The essay is an attempt by Eliot to define the boundaries of literary criticism: to say what does, and what does not, constitute truly literary criticism, as opposed to, for example, a study in history based upon a work of literature. The essay is significant because it represents Eliots response to the New Critical perspective which had taken the academic study of literature by storm during Eliots lifetime. It also presents an analysis of some of its authors own poetic works, an unusual characteristic for modern criticism—it has become far more usual today for poets and critics to be in separate camps, rather than united in one individual. Perhaps even more importantly, it demonstrates the progress and change in Eliot's own critical thought over the years between 1919 and 1956.
lexicalization	eng: The Frontiers of Criticism
instance of	c/Works by T. S. Eliot