What does Eliot mean by tradition?
Tradition and Individual Talent was published in 1919 in the Times literary supplement. It is one of the most popular essays in literary criticism. The essay may be regarded as an unofficial manifesto of Eliot's critical creed.
his is because it contains all those critical principles from which his criticism has been derived ever since. The seeds which have been shown here come to fruit in his subsequent essays. As the title of the essay indicates, it has given much importance to 'tradition' and 'individual talents. The essay is divided into three parts.
In the first part, the conception of tradition is given. The second part deals with Eliot's theory of the impersonality of poetry. The third and comparatively shorter part is the form of "summing up. The views of Eliot on the importance of Tradition and individual talent can be discussed as follows.
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