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To an average child of this century are - judged by the standards ofpoetry - crude and vague rather than subtle or appropriate. (pe, p. 248) The sense in which T. S. Eliot and I. A. Richards set the terms of reference for twentieth-century Anglo-American criticism can be dearly seen in the work ofJohn Crowe Ransom and Cleanth Brooks, two American critics who played major roles in what became a dominant school ofliterary analysis, the 'New Criticism' movement. The various stages of Ransom's career pivot around a process in which there is achanging interaction between the search for a set of stable social and political ideas and a parallel search for an aesthetic FROM SOVTHERN AGRARIANISM TO CRITICISM, INC.
327), or the philosopher who specialises in general theories rather than 'an acute study of particulars'. The responsibility for carrying out the new programme is on the university teacher of literat ure, but not on the literary historian who spends 'a lifetime in compiling the data of literature and yet rarely or never commits himselfto a literaryjudgement' (WB, p. 328). Judgement will be based on the new criticism's ability 'to define and enjoy the aesthetic or characteristic values of literature' (WB, p.
The subject: a brilliant discourse on 'The Frontier of Criticism', wh ich earned for the 67-year-old Nobel Prize winner an ovation remindful of those that rattle the same Williams Arena rafters during a Big Ten basketball game. ' This development was in part due to the needs of the massive extension of higher education in the USA after the Second World War. In the general professionalisation, systematisation and refinement ofteaching skills and strategies that took place to meet the needs of an expanding curriculum and student market, the pursuit of knowledge took on a new missionary and semi-scientific character.