Synopses & Reviews
A Critical Difference is a valuable study of perhaps the most intriguing and important critical debate of the 1920s. The book offers a detailed introduction to the unjustly neglected criticism of Murry and sheds new light on T. S. Eliot's role as a polemicist and controversialist in the conflicts of literary-critical culture in the 1920s.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-210) and index.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Reconstruction: Murry, Eliot, and the Athenaeum, 1919-21
Reconstruction and `Improperganda'; Literature and the War; The Athenaeum: `Inward Acts and Ancestral Attitudes'; Tradition and the Dissociated Sensibility; The Perfect Critic
Part II. The Criterion versus the Adelphi
Remy de Gourmont and the Problem of Style; After the Athenaeum; The Criterion and the Adelphi; Romanticism and Classicism; Murry's Romantic Historiography; Hulme and Classicism; Murry and a Romantic Tradition; Keats and Shakespeare
Part III. Orthodoxy and Modernism: The Claims of Religion, 1926-28
Murry, Moral Relativism, and Modernism; `Life', Liberalism, and Organized Christianity; The Life of Jesus; The Classical Revival; Reason and Romanticism; Towards a Synthesis; Some Problems of Orthodoxy
Conclusion: Imperfect Orthodoxy
Select Bibliography
Index