Eliot as a classicist in Literature
Eliot as a classicist in Literature: Eliot declared himself a literary classicist, an Angio Catholic in religion, and a political royalist. He is a classicist because he believes in order in literature like another classicist he believes that the writer must have faith in a certain system of writing and that a work of art must conform to the tradition.
But there is a significant difference between him and the neo-classical critics of the eighteenth century. The neoclassicists believed that the writer must follow the rules of the ancients and that literature must be didactic. Eliot's idea of conformity to tradition is different from this. A work of art must conform to the tradition in such a way that it alters the tradition as it is directed by it.
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