Who described his criticism as a 'by-product' of his 'private poetry-workshop' and as 'a prolongation of the thinking that went into the formation of my own verse'?

1. AS. T. Coleridge
2. BMatthew Arnold
3. CEzra Pound
4. DT. S. Eliot

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Correct answer: D. T. S. Eliot

Explanation

T. S. Eliot says this of his own criticism in 'The Frontiers of Criticism' (1956). He presents his 'workshop criticism' as a poet's criticism, written to justify the kind of poetry he was writing — e.g. his praise of the Metaphysicals and Jacobean dramatists.