ABSTRACT
20 May 1936, vol. lxxxvii, 49
Cowley (b. 1898), American critic and poet, was a member of the staff of ‘New Republic’ from 1929 to 1944.
In ‘New Republic’ (3 January 1934), lxxvii, 216–18, he described the reaction of some of the younger writers against Eliot after ‘The Waste Land’, because it seemed to them as though Eliot considered the present inferior to the past. The essay was reprinted in ‘Exile's Return’ (1934) and in Unger, pp. 30–3. In the review printed below Cowley developed his earlier doubts about the nature of Eliot's lasting importance.
