The basic content of impersonal theory is that life and art are not the same thing, and there is an insurmountable boundary between them. Therefore, the writer's personal emotional experience must go through an impersonal process, transforming personal feelings into universal and artistic feelings before entering literary works. Eliot, one of the founders of the British and American New Criticism, was called "the master of modern literary criticism" in his early years.
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