T.S. Eliot and the New Criticism

The paper at the outset defines the New Criticism enumerating the names of American New Critics. New Criticism aims at intrinsic and aesthetic study, analysis and evaluation of an autonomous work of art with an application of formal critical tolls ignoring all the extra-literary features like Sociology, Biography, History and so on. Further it ventures into the Eliot's theory of Tradition, Theory of Impersonality, Objective-Correlative relating his theory with Metaphysical and Symbolist poets. Finally, it has been concluded that Eliot's Theory of Impersonality, his concept of tradition, revival of Metaphysical Poets, Objective-Correlative, Unification of Sensibility, his belief in the organic structure of poetry, his redefinition of wit, irony and conceit and his close study of poems in terms of language , imagery and Metaphor were adopted by the New Critics as well as succeeding generations of poets and critics.