T.S. Eliot is a poet and critic and about the relationship between his poetic and critical faculties he himself has made an ingenuous confession. In ‘The Music of Poetry’ he has observed, “the critical writings of poets owe a great deal of their interest to the fact that at the back of the poet's mind, if not as his ostensible purpose, he is always trying to defend the kind of poetry he is writing, or to formulate the kind of poetry he practices.” He frequently insists that his ‘criticism’ should be seen ‘in relation to his creative writing.’ Even F.R. Leavis holds that Eliot has rare mind and he has solved his own problems as a critic and poet. “His influence has been more effective in that, he is a critic as well as a poet and his criticism and his poetry reinforce each other.” His criticism expresses ideals and his poetry presents the realities and there is always a perfect harmony between the two.