Misunderstanding Criticism

these middle-aged waife inheriting fromnModernists a principle "codified by thenNew Criticism,... the rigid separation ofnart from life." "If Lowell hadn't existed,nsurely the New Criticism would havenhad to invent him." Of Lowell, whonturned the personal to poetry regardlessnof its violations of persons, Miss Perloflfnmimics his self-justification: "For . . .