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The New Criticism and Eighteenth-Century Poetry

Those "who lack the intellectual passion required to embrace or fight an idea," Eugenio Donato complained a few years ago, "search for its origins and trace its possible history-a most effective means of bypassing an intellectual movement and reducing its relevance."' Nevertheless, the fiercest passions associated with critical and other intellectual movements accompany their initial appearances and are largely responsible for the forms they take. To search for the polemical origins of a critical movement, therefore, and to trace its history is a necessary means not of circumventing it but of coming to understand the characteristics it exhibits in its maturity. This is what I propose to do in considering the relation of eighteenth-century poetry to the New Criticism.