Tradition and Individual Talent (collected Works of Eliot)
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Eliot's 60th anniversary edition, the pioneering work of the New Criticism in British and American literature; a must-read document for English literary theory and writing courses; subverting "tradition" with tradition and defending individuality with impersonality. What is tradition? How should poets, or artists, view the relationship between their creations and tradition? Eliot gave a conclusive conclusion in his famous article "Tradition and Individual Talent": Tradition is not a blind or timid adherence to the successful methods of the previous generation, but something with a much broader significance. It contains historical consciousness and is not inherited. To obtain it requires a lot of labor. This work was the foundation of New Criticism and directly influenced the birth of later critical classics such as Bloom's "The Anxiety of Influence" and Leavis's "The Great Tradition". The "impersonality" theory mentioned in the article - poetry is not the release of emotion, but the escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but the escape from personality. It has also become a crucial theory in modern literature, and has had a huge impact on Roland Barthes's "The Author is Dead" and Michel Foucault's "What is the Author". In addition to this article that provides a comprehensive and holistic reflection on literature, the collection of the same name "Tradition and Individual Talent" also includes Eliot's evaluation and appreciation of specific poets, focusing on the discussion and analysis of the literary creation of the Elizabethan era. As a poet who is highly conscious of the nature and process of poetry creation, Eliot's creation and his criticism are closely linked. This anthology allows us to better appreciate his creations through his criticism, and at the same time, it also helps us better understand the nature of literature.
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