Poets of the 19th and 20th century

David J. DeLaura, Professor of English Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania

Footnote 8, Introduction, of the author's Hebrew and Hellene in Victorian England: Newman, Arnold, and Pater, which University of Texas Press published in 1969. It appears in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.

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y "The Place of the Classics in T. S. Eliot's Christian Humanism" (Frederic Will, ed., Hereditas: Seven Essays on the Modern Experience of the Classical, pp. 153-197) takes up a more advanced stage of the same process in a more decisively secular and metaphysically neutral climate. Partly because of his greater perspective, Eliot has a clearer apprehension than either Arnold or Pater, of what the issues are and of what is at stake for both religion and culture. Norman Friedman ("Newman, Aristotle, and the New Criticism: On the Modern Element in Newman's Poetics," PMLA, LXXXI [June 1966], 271) strikingly concludes: "nineteenth- and twentiethcentury poetry and poetics represent what may be a last-ditch attempt to rescue the subjective life of the free individual from the encroachments of Western technological civilization."

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