Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years the most distinguished literary quarterly in the English language has been The Criterion, published in London under the editorship of T. S. Eliot. The current issue carries Editor Eliot's announcement that The Criterion is at an end. To the reading public at large, this news meant little, not so to many a writer and serious reader on both sides of the Atlantic...
Founded with the backing of Viscountess Rothermere in 1922, while T. S. Eliot was still on the staff of a London bank, The Criterion was expensive (7s. 6d -$1.75), highbrow, never attained a wide circulation (900). Yet its influence unquestionably exceeded that of any other English literary journal. Its first issue printed T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, probably the most influential modern poem. It was the first English periodical to publish the work of Marcel Proust, Paul Valery, Jean Cocteau, many another since-famed major European writer. The list of its contributors-James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Virginia...
Though Eliot himself earned the label of No. 1 tenant of the contemporary Ivory Tower, The Criterion also published the first poems of W. H. Auden. Stephen Spender, many another young radical. A Tory in politics,, an Anglo-Catholic in religion, Eliot held to his own beliefs in criticism. As an editor he acknowledged the talent, scholarship and imagination of writers whose social and political beliefs he sharply opposed...
...progressive Government passed graduated income taxes, woman suffrage, labor regulation and old-age pension acts, and other laws which were models for liberal legislators elsewhere. The way the Maoris were treated-today they are the only Polynesian people who are increasing-was and is a criterion for other governments with native problems to follow...
...contradictory; but Southern literary news snaps and crackles with unexpected items-with new writers discovered and old writers coming back, new magazines popping up and every mail bringing to publishers' desks fresh evidence of the South's literary ferment. In England (where T. S. Eliot's Criterion has called The Southern Review, published at Baton Rouge, La., the best American literary magazine), in France (where William Faulkner is compared to Poe), in the U. S. (where Gone With the Wind has sold 1,750,000 copies), the literary rise of the South looks like the biggest thing...