Tradition and the Individual Talent

essay by Eliot

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In T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land and criticism
In the essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” appearing in his first critical volume, The Sacred Wood (1920), Eliot asserts that tradition, as used by the poet, is not a mere repetition of the work of the immediate past (“novelty is better than repetition,” he said); rather, it…
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