T.S. Eliot wrote that this "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" author was "unhampered by any ideas"
VC ... are critiques of the 
state of Literary Studies, founded on their authors' revolt against the ..... into 
several genres, and includes Tess of the d'Urbervilles as one of ...... function: 'the 
critical power,' he wrote in 'The Function of Criticism at the Present.