The Criterion - wikipedia The Criterion This article is about the British literary magazine. For other uses of criterion or criteria, see Criterion. The Criterion was a British literary magazine published from October 1922 to January 1939. The Criterion ( or the Criterion ) was, for most of its run, a quarterly journal, although for a period in 1927 - 28 it was published monthly. It was created by the poet, dramatist, and literary critic T.S. Eliot who served as its editor for its entire run. Eliot 's goal was to make it a literary review dedicated to the maintenance of standards and the reunification of a European intellectual community. Although in a letter to a friend in 1935 George Orwell had said `` for pure snootiness it beats anything I have ever seen '', writing in 1944 he referred to it as `` possibly the best literary paper we have ever had ''. The first issue of the magazine, of which 600 copies were printed, included Eliot 's The Waste Land. In its first year, it received contributions from Luigi Pirandello, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, E.M. Forster, and W.B. Yeats. Other contributors over the years included Wyndham Lewis, Herbert Read, John Middleton Murry, John Gould Fletcher, W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and Hart Crane. Nine contributions in 1924 and 1925 were made, pseudonymously, by Eliot 's first wife, Vivienne Haigh - Wood, who suggested the journal 's name. The Criterion became the first English periodical to publish Marcel Proust, Paul Valéry and Jean Cocteau. Lady Rothermere ( Mary Lilian Share, the wife of the London newspaper magnate Harold Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere ) originally financed the journal, but on reading the first issue, she wrote three letters to Eliot criticizing it, and suggested ideas for later issues, including a story by Katherine Mansfield. After four years she withdrew her support and the magazine was acquired by Eliot 's employer, Faber and Gwyer Publishing ( later Faber & Faber ). From January 1926, when Faber became the publisher, though January 1927 the journal was titled The New Criterion. The issues from May 1927 though March 1928 were titled The Monthly Criterion. Some of Eliot 's other contributions include his short story `` On the Eve '', commentaries, and poems, including early versions of `` The Hollow Men '' and `` Ash Wednesday ''. Together with its rival, Adelphi, edited by John Middleton Murry, it was the leading literary journal of the period. While the former 's definitions of literature were based on romanticism allied to liberalism and a subjective approach, Eliot used his publication for expounding his defense of classicism, tradition, and Catholicism. In this contest Eliot emerged a clear victor, in the sense that in the London of the 1930s he had taken the centre of the critical stage. References Jump up ^ T.S. Eliot 's Criterion : The Editor and His Contributors, by Herbert Howarth ( 1950 ) JSTOR 1768640 Jump up ^ `` History of publishing - Magazine publishing ''. Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2018 - 02 - 27. Jump up ^ http://app.cul.columbia.edu:8080/ac/handle/10022/AC:P:1009 Academic Commons Columbia University Libraries Jump up ^ `` An Age Like This '' ( 1936 ) ( The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 1 - An Age Like This 1939 - 1940 p. 197 ( Penguin ) ) Jump up ^ `` As I Please '' ( 1944 ) ( The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 3 - As I Please 1943 - 1945 p. 197 ( Penguin ) ) ^ Jump up to : ( 1 ) `` Anything I Write Is Good : Letters of T.S. Eliot '' The New York Times ^ Jump up to : Sabloff, Nicholas. `` The Nursery of Genius : A brief survey of ten magazines of influence '' https://web.archive.org/web/20090504235924/http://www.nyrm.org/2007/sabloff_well.html Jump up ^ Gallup, Donald. T.S. Eliot : A Bibliography ( A Revised and Extended Edition ) p. 211 ( Harcourt Brace & World 1969 ) Jump up ^ Ackroyd, Peter ( 1984 ). T.S. Eliot. New York : Simon & Schuster. p. 123. ISBN 0 - 671 - 53043 - 7. Jump up ^ Ackroyd, p. 248 Jump up ^ Gallup, p. 14 Jump up ^ `` Idea of a Literary Review : T.S. Eliot and The Criterion - Oxford Scholarship ''. doi : 10.1093 / acprof : osobl / 9780199654291.001. 0001 / acprof - 9780199654291 - chapter - 21. Jump up ^ David Goldie, A Critical Difference : T.S. Eliot and John Middleton Murry in English Literary Criticism, 1919 - 1928 ( 1998 ), pp. 2 - 3. T.S. Eliot Bibliography Early poems `` The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock '' `` Portrait of a Lady '' `` Preludes '' `` Whispers of Immortality '' `` Gerontion '' The Waste Land `` The Hollow Men '' Ash Wednesday Ariel Poems Journey of the Magi A Song for Simeon Later poems Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats `` Bustopher Jones '' `` Gus : The Theatre Cat '' `` Growltiger 's Last Stand '' Burnt Norton East Coker The Dry Salvages Little Gidding Four Quartets Plays Sweeney Agonistes The Rock Murder in the Cathedral The Family Reunion The Cocktail Party The Confidential Clerk The Elder Statesman Prose Selected Essays, 1917 - 1932 `` Hamlet and His Problems '' `` Tradition and the Individual Talent '' The Sacred Wood A Choice of Kipling 's Verse ( 1941 ) `` The Frontiers of Criticism '' Adaptations CATS ( 1981 musical, 1998 film ) Publishing The Criterion Faber and Faber T.S. Eliot Prize T.S. Eliot Prize ( Truman State University ) Related Tom & Viv ( 1994 film ) People Eliot family Vivienne Haigh - Wood Eliot ( first wife ) Valerie Eliot ( second wife ) Henry Ware Eliot ( father ) Charlotte Champe Stearns ( mother ) William Greenleaf Eliot ( grandfather ) E. Martin Browne John Davy Hayward Ezra Pound Jean Jules Verdenal William Butler Yeats Commons Wikibooks Wikiquote Wikisource texts GND : 4113254 - 3 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Criterion&oldid=857118785 '' Categories : 1922 establishments in the United Kingdom 1939 disestablishments in the United Kingdom British monthly magazines British quarterly magazines Defunct British literary magazines Magazines established in 1922 Magazines disestablished in 1939 T.S. 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Question: who started his career as the editor of the criterion in 1922
Answer: T. S. Eliot