The Making of Modern Criticism is a Book that Comprises Four Sections: from Romantic Subjectivity to Modernist Impersonality: Re-reading Wordsworth and Eliot

Author(s)	Ravinder Saini, Dr. Imtiyaz Ahmed
Country	India
Abstract	A comparative essay of William Wordsworth and T.S. Eliot, this essay explains the transfer of intellectual subjectivity of Romantics to Modernist impersonality. Though emotion is expected by Romanticism, imagination and individual consciousness, Modernism revisits these elements through applying discipline, tradition and depersonalization. This paper holds that the theory of impersonality as put forward by Eliot is not a denial but a modification of the Wordsworth Ian poetics. The paper shows that the current state of literary criticism develops in continuity and dialectics instead of discontinuity by applying a qualitative, textual and theoretical analysis. The findings indicate that the critical paradigm by Eliot reinstates the ideals of Romanticism in modernized epistemological paradigm thereby establishing the continuum within the literary criticism.
Keywords	Romanticism, Modernism, Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, Impersonality, Subjectivity, Literary Criticism.
Discipline	Other
Published In	Volume 4, Issue 1, January-February 2026
Published On	2026-01-06

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