期刊名称：Études britanniques contemporaines. Revue de la Société dʼétudes anglaises contemporaines
印刷版ISSN：1168-4917
电子版ISSN：2271-5444
出版年度：2008
期号：33
页码：1
DOI：10.4000/ebc.9401
出版社：Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
摘要：T.S. Eliot’s literary criticismhad persisted inmaintaining asignificantly high profileeven after the high tide ofBritishmodernist writing had receded and the Derridean initiative had brushed allaside. Yet it would perhaps not beconsidered too offthe mark to suggest that Eliot’s roleasacritic of the novel has not received as much attention. Eliot’s responseto D. H. Lawrence, forexample, isacasein point. Eliot’s denigration ofLawrenceand undervaluing of hisachievementasa novelist (‘ . . . he never succeeded inmaking a work ofart’, The Criterion, vol. x), his focus onLawrence’s ‘sexualmorbidity’,and his ‘lack ofintelligence’,and theresistancethat it provoked fromamong Lawrence’s supporters, offer fascinating insights into Eliot’scritical practice. Morethan that, thereisalso the question ofthe natureand significance ofliterary-critical value-judgement. Howvalid aresuch value-judgements? Eliot’s rejection ofLawrence, F. R. Leavis’s responseto Eliot’scriticaljudgement,asalso Dr. Leavis’sassessment ofEliot’s vision oflifeas such, the vision that he projects in his verse—these variables offer opportunities to raiseinteresting questionsaboutcriticalsensibility and valuejudgements.
