Т. С. ЕЛИОТ И ЕСТЕТИКА БРИТАНСКОГ МОДЕРНИЗМА
T. S. ELIOT AND THE ESTHETICS OF BRITISH MODERNISM

Summary/Abstract: The year 1922 was crucial for British Modernism. This is the year when James Joyce’s Ulyssess, Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room, Eliot’s poem The Waste Land, and the first issue of the most influential modernist literary magazine The Criterion were published. T. S. Eliot was the first editor of The Criterion and remained so for its entire run. He set as his main goal to establish literary standards. He wished to „correct [litarary] taste“ and support the best which has been created in the British and European tradition. Eliot’s view of tradition was already well known at the beggining of his work in The Cretirion. As an editor Eliot remained loyal to his ideas about antiquity along with the philosophy of continuity and change. He promoted his ideas in the seventeen editorials before The Cretirion stopped to be published, at the onset of World War II. The aim of this article is to present Eliot’s ideas as an expression of the culture, esthetics and philosophy of British Modernism.

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