T.S.Eliot And Romanticism

No single person has influenced the development of modem western poetry quite as much as S Eliot, both as poet and as critic. He is the forerunner of the New Critic. His first serious publication appeared in 1915. From then on he became the central poet as well as critic. He is an author with much more written about his work then he has written. This thesis is about the relationship ofTS Eliot and Romanticism. I found that Romanticism is also the important tradition to Eliot. From the following four aspects, I explain his relationship with Romanticism. (1) Romanticism revival, development and main features. e. g English Romanticism (2) The social reality at the beginning of twentieth century (3) Early romantic taste and symbolism in his poetry. (4) Eliot and romantics Romantic Movement began in 1790s. The Romantic poems are different from classical works in language, rhythm. William Wordsworth, a representative of English Romanticism, developed his poetry with common speech on common life. ft is important to suggest that Romantic Movement may be understood as continuing into our own time as a living tradition, growing and changing as time passes, but never stopped. W ?B Yeats is the main heir of Romanticism in twentieth century. It is difficult for us to define Romanticism, but we can conclude that most of Romantics emphasized the imagine and see it as a part of the great endeavor to overcome the split between subject and object, the self and the world, the conscious and unconscious. The problem facing British society by the turn of the century was very complex. The conflict of the society were very deeper than before. Latter-day Romantics had indulged increasingly in sentimentalism as a consequence of the belief that individual is an infinite reservoir. This is not to say, the Romantic style has been to its end. But modern bourgeois society was so complex that na飗e romantic individualism could not echo the age. ThSEliot, influenced by the imagist, attacked the Romanticism, meanwhile emphasized the importance of the tradition. Of course the tradition includes the romanticism Modem poetry is the heir of many schools and many traditions Eliot抯 criticize to Romanticism is inheritance and development. Eliot derived his influence from Byron, Tennyson and the French Symbolism in his early poetry, especially in his The Love Song of J.Agred Prufrock .ln扙liot and Romantics? 1 analyze the resemblance between T SEliot and Romantics, such as Keats. Coleridge, Wordsworth and Arnold. Eliot found Romantic critics many of his own concerns.