English Literature / Unit 16 ENL 1531 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Tradition and the Individual Talent"
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The idea
In "Tradition and the Individual Talent," of nineteen nineteen, Eliot argued that a poet must write with the whole literary tradition in mind and that poetry is impersonal, an escape from personality. Elsewhere he proposed the "objective correlative," objects or events that express an emotion.
In practice
Tradition, impersonality, objective correlative.
Where people slip
The objective correlative is from his Hamlet essay.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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