What is the relation between criticism and creation?
Eliot speaks about the relationship between criticism and creation, He blames Mathew Arnold for distinguishing the critical "activity from the" creative activity": Arnold did not realise that criticism is not capital importance In the work of creation.
According to Eliot, criticism employed by a writer on his -own work is the highest kind of criticism. Some creative writers are superior to others only because their critical faculty is superior. Eliot ridicules those who decry the critical toil of the artist and believes that the greater artist is unconscious. Thus, to Eliot, creation and criticism are complementary to each other.
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