Dressing for Success

It is bad verse, he tells us, that contain a popular attitude but real poetry survives "not only a change of popular opinion but the complete extinction of interest in the issues with which the poet is passionately concerned."1 The first thing about which there is no different opinion is that poetry must give pleasure, but a good poet has something to give us besides pleasure.

1) T.S. Eliot, "The Social Function of Poetry" (1943)

T.K. Titus, "Critical Study of T.S. Eliot's Work"