T.S. Eliot's Early Criticism
Chronology, Handouts,  and Links

Handouts, Notes, and Links
Tradition and the Individual Talent | Hamlet and His Problems | Philip Massinger |  The Metaphysical Poets | The Function of Criticism

Chronology from  T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography by Donald Gallup
 


Poetry		  Prose Allies
1911
  • TSE in Paris, attending Bergson lectures, writing "Prufrock
  • T.E. Hulme writes "Romanticism and Classicism," pub in New Age
1912
  • Ezra Pound, H.D., and Richard Aldington create Imagism
1914
  • Emergence of Vorticism
  • Pound, "Some Don'ts for an Imagist"
1915
  • The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (w. 1911; pub 1915)
1916
  • 4 poems in  Poetry: Convgal, Figlia, Mr. Ap, Morning  at Window
 1916
  • 15 reviews: 6 on mostly religious philosophical texts in IJE; 5 in New Statesman, 2 on Liebnitz in The Monist;  1 in Poetry
1917
  • 11 reviews and essays in IJE, NS, and Egoist
  • 'Reflections on vers libre" in New Statesman
  • "Reflections on Contemporary Poetry" in Egoist
  • T.E. Hulmes dies Sept 27
1918
  • 4 Poems in the Little Review: Swen Nighteng, Whispers of Imm, Dans le Restaur, Mr.s E's Sunday Morning 
 1918
16 essays and reviews: 11 in Egoist, 4 in IJE
  • Henry James in The Little Review
1919 1919
28 essays and reviews, almost all on literary topics: American Lit, Kipling, Henry Adams, French Novel, Engl Lit, Yeats, Rostand, Marlowe, Swinburne, Poound, Ben Jonson, Donne
  • "The Romantic Generation, If It Existed" Atheneaum
  • "Tradition and the IndividualTalent" Egoist
  • "Hamlet and His Problems" Atheneaum
1920
16 essays and reviews, all literary: Swinburne, ..Blake, Euripedes, Dante, poetic Drama, Massinger, Matthew Arnold
  • "Dante as a Spiritual Leader" Athenaeum
  • Philip Massinger TLS
  • "The Perfect Critic" Atheneaum
  • "The Second-Order Mind" Dial
  • The Sacred Wood
1921
8 essays and reviews in TLS and the Dial
  • "Andrew Marvell" TLS
  • "John Dryden" TLS
  • "The Metaphysical Poets" TLS
1922
  • The Waste Land in  the Criterion and the Dial
 1922
  • Marie Lloyd" the Dial
  • "The Lesson of Baudelaire"
1923
  • "The Function of Criticism" in the Criterion
  • "Ulysses, Order, and Myth" in the Dial
1924
  • T.E. Hulme's Speculations published

Handouts, Notes, and Links
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