The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism
“Intravit pinacothecam senex canus, exercitati vultus et qui videretur nescio quid magnum promittere, sed cultu non proinde speciosus, et facile appareret eum ex hac nota litteratum esse, quos odisse divites solent ... 'ego’ inquit 'poeta sum et ut spero, non humillimi spiritus, si modo coronis aliquid credendum est, quas etiam ad immeritos deferre gratia solet.’”—Petronius.
“I also like to dine on becaficas.”
The Sacred Wood
Essays On Poetry And Criticism
T. S. Eliot
Methuen & Co. Ltd.
36 Essex Street W.C.
London
1920
For
H. W. E.
“Tacuit Et Fecit”
T. S. Eliot
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The Sacred Wood
INTRODUCTION
Contents
The Perfect Critic
I
II
Imperfect Critics
Swinburne as Critic
A Romantic Aristocrat
The Local Flavour
A Note on the American Critic
The French Intelligence
Tradition and the Individual Talent
I
II
III
The Possibility of a Poetic Drama
Euripides and Professor Murray
“Rhetoric” and Poetic Drama
Some Notes on the Blank Verse of Christopher Marlowe
Hamlet and His Problems
Ben Jonson
Philip Massinger
I
II
Swinburne as Poet
Blake
I
II
Dante