Tradition and the Individual Talent

Eliot writes about "historical sense" in "Tradition and the Individual Talent." He writes that the historical sense "involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its...

T.S Eliot's essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent" is very metaphysical in its concepts; definitions of his main points are only understood within the context of the quantum metaphysical...

In the essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent" by T. S. Eliot, the author's contention is that individual talent must be integrally related to tradition, or the vast body of works of poets and...

In a sense, Eliot's tradition resembles what structuralist linguists call "langue" and the individual talent or piece of writing resembles "parole." Writers do not invent ex nihilo, as romantics...

Eliot's main claim is that "the poet, the man, and the poet, the artist are two different entities." We can understand this assertion at different levels. First, for Eliot, the poet's experience of...

In the course of his influential essay “Traditional and the Individual Talent,” T. S. Eliot makes a number of key points, including the following: Ideally, poetic “tradition” does not refer simply...

In "Tradition and the Individual Talent," T.S. Eliot takes issue with the received wisdom (which he sees as a characteristic fallacy of Romanticism) that the originality of a great poet lies in his...

T.S. Eliot viewed Western cultural/artistic history as a continuum wherein contemporary artists are inevitably influenced and shaped by the artists that came before them. Eliot argues that in order...

Eliot argues for what he calls the "impersonality" of poetry. For Eliot, "poetry" is a living thing, a tradition that is both past and present which, in the West, stretches back to Homer. Poetry...

T. S. Eliot's Objective Theory essentially states that a poem or piece of literature should have a sense of inevitability. The idea is that the feelings and emotions should be clear and directly...