{"id":17030,"date":"2010-09-26T09:48:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T13:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=17030"},"modified":"2010-09-26T09:48:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T13:48:39","slug":"t-s-eliot-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/09\/26\/t-s-eliot-2\/","title":{"rendered":"T.S. Eliot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3tqK5zQlCDQ<\/p>\n<p><em>Eliot reading &#8220;The Burial of the Dead&#8221; from <\/em>The Waste Land<\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/T._S._Eliot\" target=\"_blank\">T.S. Eliot<\/a>&#8216;s birthday (1888-1965).\u00a0 Eliot, besides being one of the primary poets of the age, was also the dominant literary critic in English when Frye was a young man, and had a unique position in Frye&#8217;s life and career.\u00a0 While Frye always admired the poetry, he regarded Eliot&#8217;s &#8220;reactionary&#8221; book <em>After Strange Gods <\/em>as a &#8220;betrayal&#8221; which made him aware of his &#8220;own responsibilities as a critic&#8221; (<em>Northrop Frye in Conversation<\/em>, 107).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Frye in his 1963 book, <em>T.S. Eliot<\/em>, on the poet&#8217;s anti-progressive view of history and his anti-Romantic view of literature:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The progressive view of history produced the post-Romantic conception of English literature which Eliot challenged.\u00a0 According to this, originality in poetry is an aspect of individual freedom in life; hence Shakespeare, who drew individuals so well, and Milton, a Protestant revolutionary, express the real genius of English literature.\u00a0 The era from Dryden to Johnson was an inferior and prosier age, but the Romantic movement re-established the main tradition, which continued in Britain through Tennyson and Swinburne, and in America through Whitman&#8217;s conception of poetry as self-expression.<\/p>\n<p>Eliot&#8217;s historical view of English literature is a point-for-point reversal of the progressive one.\u00a0 The post-Romantic conception of &#8220;personality,&#8221; failing to distinguish the craftsman from the ordinary personality, assumes that the former is the medium or vehicle of the latter, instead of the other way around.\u00a0 In &#8220;Tradition and the Individual Talent&#8221; Eliot speaks of the poetic process as &#8220;impersonal,&#8221; not an expression of personality but an &#8220;escape&#8221; from it.\u00a0 The poet&#8217;s mind is a place where something happens to words, like a catalyser which accompanies but does not manipulate a chemical action.\u00a0 In other early essays, though Eliot agrees with Arnold about the immaturity of the Romantic poets, he means by &#8220;Romanticism&#8221; chiefly the popular post-Romantic residue of their influence which is contemporary with himself.\u00a0 This Romanticism, he says, &#8220;leads his disciples only back upon themselves.&#8221;\u00a0 Romanticism, then, as a creative process emanating from and returning from the ego, occupies the foreground of Eliot&#8217;s historical dialectic, the contemporary world at the bottom of the Western mountain, as far as we can get from the &#8220;anti-romantic,&#8221; &#8220;practical sense of realities&#8221; in Dante&#8217;s <em>Vita nuova<\/em>. 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