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the poetic process to the scientific experiment. Whilst it is tempting to see this as a negation of the creative process. Eliot’s later remarks lead us irresistibly to think in terms of the earlier alchemists and their somewhat romantic mystical aura rather than some cold clinical experiment. This attitude again presupposes the poet in the role of a catalyst.
Woolf’s ideas in ‘Modern Fiction’ are the antithesis of those of Eliot. She begins by suggesting, “it is difficult not to take it for granted that the modern practice of the art is somehow an improvement upon the old.” Perhaps more significant is the analogical language that she uses, linking the creative literary process to that of making motor cars. It may be argued that this is a less happy comparison than that made by Eliot. One is tempted then to view the artistic process as some kind of mechanical bolting together of a succession of parts that lack the mysticism inherent in ...

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unreasonable strictures by the reading public, circulating libraries and the publishers as to, not only what their novels contained but also the type of characters they wrote about.
In Eliot’s “The Metaphysical Poets”, he finds a similarity between the Metaphysical poets and the French symbolist poets who wrote in the late nineteenth century. What made the metaphysical poets an important part of tradition is that they were unknown during the time that Eliot wrote the essay.
Eliot’s poetry is full of allusion. There is a combination between his experience of real life and tradition, which he
uses to form this type of writing. Eliot maybe seen as stringently, ...

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