The poetic principles of T.S. Eliot.

Thomas Stearns Eliot has unquestionably influenced English poetry. Just how profound this influence is cannot at present be estimated, but up to now he has been without doubt the most influential writer of his time. [...] In the following paper I have therefore tried to examine impartially, in the light that is shed on them by his own poetry, the critical remarks Eliot has made concerning poetry. What emerges from this examination leads to the conclusion that there is a unity, albeit qualified, in Eliot's writings as a whole. [...] I have approached the subject largely from the critical side of Eliot's writings not only because deduction is a more reliable method than induction but also because - etiam disiecti membra poetae notwithstanding - dissection is less damaging to criticism than to poetry