English Literature / Unit 19 ENL 1808 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Eliot: Tradition and the Objective Correlative
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The idea
In "Tradition and the Individual Talent," Eliot argued that a poet writes with the whole tradition in mind and that poetry is impersonal. In his Hamlet essay he proposed the "objective correlative," objects or events that express an emotion.
In practice
Tradition, impersonality, correlative.
Where people slip
Eliot reverses Wordsworth's personal feeling.
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