This critic opined that artists cannot be accused of superficiality when creating worlds because the superficiality is the world, in an essay comparing those worlds to systems of non-Euclidean geometry.
This critic opined that artists cannot be accused of superficiality when creating worlds because the superficiality is the world, in an essay comparing those worlds to systems of non-Euclidean geometry. This critic called Finnegan's Wake "merely beautiful nonsense" and ridiculed close reading as the "lemon-squeezer school of criticism" in a lecture delivered at the University of Minnesota, titled "The Frontiers of Criticism." This critic wrote the oft-misquoted line "Immature poets (*) imitate; mature poets steal," in his essay on Philip Massinger. This author helped rejuvenate the popularity of poets like Cowley and Marvell in a 1921 essay. He posited that art can only provoke genuine emotion through an "objective correlative" in an essay about the artistic failure of a Shakespeare play. For 10 points, name this critic who collected his essay "Hamlet and His Problems" in The Sacred Wood.
This critic opined that artists cannot be accused of superficiality when creating worlds because the superficiality is the world, in an essay comparing those worlds to systems of non-Euclidean geometry.
T.S. Eliot [or Thomas Stearns Eliot]