(26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) 

• Eliot was extremely well read.  He was a literature generalist.

• Leavisites liked Romantic poetry.

• Eliot worked in modernist realm.

• Modern art is conscience different.

• Metaphysical poetry was hard to figure out.

• Romantics would say you don't have to look at past.

• In as much a poet is aware

• 'criticism is as inevitable as breathing' (33).

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