New Light on The Sacred Wood

Author: White P.  

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISSN: 0034-6551

Source: Review of English Studies, Vol.54, Iss.216, 2003-09, pp. : 497-515

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Abstract

Critics and commentators have shown little or no interest in the identity of the ‘distinguished critic’ pilloried in the opening pages of T. S. Eliot's first prose collection The Sacred Wood, with the result that Eliot's sustained assault upon one of the most influential figures in post-war literary London has gone altogether unnoticed. In the light of hitherto neglected evidence presented here it becomes possible to offer an entirely new account of the structure and development of the volume, one that has the merit of explaining certain curious inconsistencies and discontinuities in the extended survey of English criticism that forms its opening movement.