Historical analysis reveals asymmetric critical engagement between T. S. Eliot and C. S. Lewis, highlighting Eliot's deliberate silence toward Lewis's scholarship.
"Most agree that Lewis’s critique of Eliot’s work is important to his literary scholarship—whether they think that critique changes or not. There is no academic book of Lewis’s from the 1930s and 1940s in which he does not at some point engage with Eliot by name. The opposite question—whether Lewis’s work was important to Eliot—is comparatively neglected. This paper investigates this neglected question."
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