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Academimic.(book by Craig Raine entitled "T. S. Eliot")(Book review)

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From: New Criterion
Date: 20070401
Author:Dean, Paul

I heard Craig Raine interviewed on the radio about this book. (1) Didn't he feel, he was asked, that his often abrasive dismissals of fellow critics ("execrable," "stupid") lowered the standards of academic writing? His answer was contemptuous: "Yeah, but who reads academic writing, for God's sake?"

Well, quite a few people do--he has even read some himself--and they will have to go on doing so if they want real help in understanding T. S. Eliot. Raine's book, in a series called "Lives and Legacies," gives a biographical chronology, and adopts a chaotic approach to Eliot's ...

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