ABSTRACT
A new creative work by T.S. Eliot is not going to be simple, even if he has reverted to a simpler literary form, and simple judgments by the critics will misrepresent it. His latest work is the play, ‘The Family Reunion.’ He may be said by this time to have entered upon a new literary career, as playwright. But it would be idle to expect that the new plays will be out of relation with the old poems and critical prose. He keeps a foot in each of two worlds: the new world of naturalistic or realistic psychological drama, and the old world of poetry which, for him, means metaphysics. He will soon make ordinary drama look cheap because of its lack of metaphysical interest, just as he had part in making the ordinary shallow poetry of twenty years ago look the same way, and for the same reason.
