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Tradition and the Individual Talent

Tradition and the Individual Talent

Paperback

Series: Eris Gems

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 191680943X
ISBN13: 9781916809437
Publisher: Eris
Published: Jun 24 2025
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.00 Depth: 7.40
Language: English

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

T. S. Eliot's advocacy of impersonality as a literary ideal in Tradition and the Individual Talent had an immeasurable impact on Modernist literature and continues to resonate today. An incisive (and controversial) account of individual artists' relation to their forebears, this essay remains an outstanding work of critical prose.

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