This chapter explores the several subdivisions in significance of Eliot's revolution in criticism will have to be developed in piecemeal fashion, because it manifests itself across so many otherwise distinct spheres of critical discussion. The modernist revolution in criticism was very largely a matter of revising fundamental assumptions of this kind and of evolving a new language and new procedures for the examination of literary works as autonomous objects of inquiry, no longer to be confused with the lives or 'philosophies' of their authors. Eliot announced his new principles in what were clearly anti-Romantic terms. Criticism between the wars was haunted by its strong awareness of cultural collapse and social conflict. The Cambridge school generated conflicting forms of liberalism, but many other important critics aligned themselves with Left or Right. Knight's revolutionary revision of Shakespearean interpretation in The Wheel of Fire was to some extent inadvertent. In the making and re-making of canons, two major developments in this period.