American Scholar, June 22nd, 1998
Matthew Arnold and T.S. Eliot became prominent poets, literary critics, and social commentators of the literary universe of the 19th and 20th centuries, respectively. Eliot mocked Arnold in his poetry before he became a critical expert. Since around the 1960s, however, Eliot has not received a favorable response from critics because his achievements in royalism, classicism, and Anglo-Catholicism conflict with a democratic society.
As early as his first published book of poetry, Prufrock and Other Observations, T. S. Eliot made a habit of mocking Matthew Arnold. "Cousin Nancy," a humorous poem...
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