Criticism in America: Its Function and Status : Essays

by T.S. Eliot, Irving Babbitt

In essays dating between 1910 and 1923, noted writers and scholars, including Irving Babbitt and T. S. Eliot, present what is probably the first fundamental discussion of the nature of criticism in American literature. THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College.

330 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 1924

About the author

Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry." He wrote the poems The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, and Four Quartets; the plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party; and the essay Tradition and the Individual Talent. Eliot was born an American, moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at the age of 25), and became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.S._Eliot