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The Relationship of Poetry and Music in the Background of the History of Literature and Eliot's Viewpoint

Soon-Jung BaeThis article pirmarily reviews the relationship of poetry and music in the background of the history of literature and Eliot's viewpoint. Nineteenth-century poets and critics including Edgar Allan Poe and Walter Pater shared an idea that music, the art of a perfect form was a model of poetry among all kinds of art. They believed that lyric among all genres of poetry, novel and drama was the most similar to music because it could give a reader the deepest emotions and had the least influence of the contents. Eliot had an interest in the relationship of literature and music and wrote his opinion about it in his works. He showed his interest in the relationship of poetry and music through the concept of “auditory imagination” in The Use of Poetry and The Use of Criticism (1933) and expressed his attraction to the sound and the meaning of words in his prose, “The Music of Poetry”(1942) But he recognized there was a limit in the relationship of music and poetry, so emphasized on the meaning of words and common language.