Vulgar, Sentimental, and Liberal Criticism: F. J. Furnivall and T. S. Eliot on Shakespeare and Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Holbrook, Peter.
Vulgar, Sentimental, and Liberal Criticism: F. J. Furnivall and T. S. Eliot on Shakespeare and Chaucer
- Published
- Modern Philology 107 (2009): 96-125.
- Description
- Contrasts the dispassionate modernist criticism of T. S. Eliot with the more emotional criticism of F. J. Furnivall, arguing that Furnivall is "passionately committed to libertarian tradition in English poetry, a tradition whose founts he locates in Chaucer and Shakespeare," two geniuses. Part of the "standard liberal-Protestant cultural history," Furnivall's views are populist and egalitarian where Eliot's are intellectual and elitist.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism