On T.S. Eliot’s Literary Criticism View

T. S. Eliot was a famous poet in20th century,who was known for contemporarypoetry. He was also the founder of modern criticism, and the blazer of new criticism inAmerican. From the text of his poetry to the cultural thoughts, lots of research dadbeen achieved in academic circles, but his literary criticism view was hardly cause anyattention.Eliot’s literary criticism is based on works, and the place it in traditional system,take the comparison and analysis as the criticism methods, through the specificstandard of “the personalized” and “objective corresponding”, for appreciating theexplanation of arts and correcting the appreciation taste in critical practice, therefore,and get to construct the criticism order system and to achieve “truth” of criticismfinally.Eliot’s literary criticism is gradually formed and perfected on the base of theModernismmovement and the development of modern literature on literary criticismwhich calls for new objective demand of paradigm. Eliot takes the acceptionalphilosophy thought as the backing, to beginning with the criticism and reflection ofromantic, to solve the problems such as Modernism movement of power, poetrycreation of new art form and new epistemotogical paradigm, which started the moderncriticism process, promote the development of Modernism movement.Eliot thought that purpose ofcriticism is the a system problem: explanation of artsand correcting the appreciation tasteis the implement purpose in specific criticismpractice, to constructing a criticism order system and pursuiting the “truth” throughcriticism isthe final purpose of criticism. The traditional view used to thebasicconnotation of “order” theory,“the personalized” and “objective corresponding”principle is the specific standard of specific criticism practice must be grasped.Inspecific criticism, Eliot take the focus of criticism from the poet to text itself,put the text into time and space of the unity of the tradition, use the application ofcomparing and analyzing, seek the inner relationship between writers and text, theliterary law and the truth, which has the intertextual characteristics. Eliot’s literarycriticism has contributed to metaphysical poetry of the classic, and has set anexamplefor formalism criticism.Eliot is the founder of modern criticism. For us to research Eliot’s literarycriticism, to grasp the concept of his poetry and literature theory, to understand modern criticism characteristics and Modernism movement, which play an importantrole in our study of the western modern literary theory.