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Lee, Cheol Hee. “Eliot’s Reading of Blake.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 39.4 (2013): 163-180. This paper focuses Eliot’s thoughts on Blake. Eliot emphasizes on Blake’s peculiarity, praising a pure honesty in Lyric Poems. Nevertheless, Eliot asserts that Blake’s only fault is that he is inexperienced very much and his style is only limited to himself, Blake is writing his work only with his own thought and consciousness without many other rhetoric techniques. Eliot states that Blake depends too much on his own subjectivity, presenting his topics and themes with only one man’s soul in mind. Thus, Eliot suggests that a poet should have many topics to exemplify the sickness of an epoch and a fashion. Focusing on this techniques, Eliot wrote his masterpiece, The Waste Land, which accurately reveals a modern man of the 20th century. However, Eliot does not speak negatively of Blake; he compliments Blake on his “immense understanding of human nature,” “the music of a language,” “original creative gift” etc. But he insists that these aspects should be controlled by “objective reason,” “common sense” and “scientific objectivity.”(Dongyang University)