The Criterion

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Ed. by Chris Baldick, Goldsmiths College, University of London
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Newman University), Louise McDonald (Newman University)

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Date of occurrence 1922-10-1939-01

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England (Location)

The Criterion (1922-39) was a quarterly literary review founded and edited from London by the poet and critic T. S. Eliot. It won a distinguished reputation for its critical standards and for its impressive European range of eminent contributors, among whom were W. B. Yeats, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Paul Valéry, Luigi Pirandello, Jean Cocteau, C. P. Cavafy, and Benedetto Croce. It failed to reach a readership much above 1,000, though, and was never a fully viable concern, being kept afloat by benefactors’ subsidies (initially from Lady Rothermere, the estranged wife of a newspaper magnate) and by further support from the publisher Geoffrey Faber, who became Eliot’s employer from 1925. Under successive …

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Citation: Baldick, Chris. "The Criterion". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 04 May 2021 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19620, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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