ELIOT, T. S., and others.

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The Criterion; [together with] -- The New Criterion -- The Monthly Criterion. First editions of the complete run of The Criterion, including the first volume with the first appearance in print of Eliot's "The Waste Land". The collection also contains early versions of Eliot's "The Hollow Men" and "Ash Wednesday" and the first appearance of Woolf's essay "On Being Ill".Founded with the financial backing of Lady Rothermere, The Criterion was the leading British literary periodical of the 1920s and 1930s, publishing many modernist luminaries, among them Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, D. H. Lawrence, W. B. Yeats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Dylan Thomas, James Joyce, and Luigi Pirandello. Eliot's wide literary perspective situated the magazine at the centre of not only the British but also the wider European intellectual scene, and over the years The Criterion included early British appearances of Marcel Proust, Paul Valéry, and Jean Cocteau. It also contains at least 119 contributions by Eliot himself, many unattributed. It was taken over by Faber in January 1926, when it was retitled The New Criterion and later The Monthly Criterion. Publication ceased at the beginning of the war.

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