T.S. ELIOT "TRADITION AND INDIVIDUAL TALENT
T.S.ELIOT'S "Tradition and individual talent "was published in 1919 in The Egoist -THE times literary supplement .Later , the essay was published in The Sacred Wood:Essay on poetry and Criticism in 1920/2. This essay is described by David Lodge as the most celebrated critical essay in the english of the 20th century . The essay is divided into three main sections :
(1) Concept of tradition
(2)Theory of Depersonalization and poetry
(3)Poet’s sense of tradition and the impersonality of poetry are complementary things.
Here is some questions ans :-
QUESTION:-1.
ANS :-
Here in tradition and individual talent Eliot has presented tradition in positive sence as it is not only inherited trend or any particular method which should be followed, but he has given concept of merging past and present with the sence of history . Tradition is not only describes in the sence following but as an awareness of history to make future .
◆QUESTION :-2 what do you understand by historical sense ? ( use these quotes to explain your understanding )
Ans :-
=>"The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence"
This historical sense, which is a sense of the timeless as well as of the temporal and of the timeless and of the temporal together, is what makes a writer traditional.
Historical sense is the sense of the timeless and the temporal, as well as of the timeless and the temporal together. A writer, who has much sense of tradition, is fully conscious of his own generation, of his place in the present, but he is also actually conscious of his relationship with the writers of the past.
Question :-3What is the relationship between “tradition” and “the individual talent,” according to the poet T. S. Eliot?

Ans :- For Eliot tradition and individual talent an existing does not cut itself from the tradition , we have to work in an interdisciplinary kind of a manner . In answer of that how individual talent associated with tradition he is says that ....... Individual talent does not cut itself away from the tradition for eliot Tradition is already existing monument and individual talent can only marginally and a bir , extend it a bit . Tradition and individual talent they both go together . It can be separate .
Question :- 4 Explain: "Some can absorb knowledge, the more tardy must sweat for it.Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum".
Ans :- Here eliot wants that readers go to wide reading and according to him William Shakespeare is unexpectational highly educated lin convinsed language,as per Johnson mensions in his preface to Shakespeare that "He know no other language than english "So we could think here that he was not highly educated or a scholar who had knowledge of many language but still he was famous Arnold mentions that great epochs of creativity doesnt come often and he mentions for examples Renaissance was very high period shakespeare is exceptional in this that in his biography there's no mention that Shakespeare went to uni .lt seems that he knew na other language than english according to Johnson So, here is one question that how Shakespeare for in Eliot's rule, then eliot himself have an answer by borrowing thought from Arnold that great epochs of creativity doesn't doen often like great period of Renaissance in english history can't come often and further also says that according to Arnold critics have important role ti play for making history or rather building opinion about someone very remarkable or important.This is the individual talent or the quality of absorbing makes Shakespeare great without so many efforts We can say that Eliot says that it is not necessary to get high education for being good writer, it is the absorbing or we can say the hard work, labouring that makes you more success. So we can say Shakespeare lived his age.
Question :- 5 Explain: "Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry"
Ans :- Eliot sees the poet's mind as "a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together." He says that concepts like "sublimity", "greatness" or "intensity" of emotion are irrelevant. It is not the greatness of the emotion that matters, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure under which the artistic process takes place, that is important. In this way he dissociates the notion on the artistic process from an added emphasis on 'genius' and the exceptional mind.
★Eliot refuse the idea that poetry is the expression of poet’s personality. Experiences in the life of the man may have no place in his poems, and vice-versa. The emotions occasioned by events in the personal life of the poet are not important. What matters is the emotion transmuted into poetry, the feelings expressed in the poetry. "Emotions which he has never experienced will serve his turn as well as those familiar to him". Eliot critiques Wordsworth's definition of poetry in the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads: "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling: it takes its origins from emotion recollected in tranquility."For Eliot, poetry is not recollection of feeling, "it is a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences . .... . it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation." Eliot defines that "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality." For him, the emotion of art is impersonal, and the artist can achieve this impersonality only by and being conscious of the tradition, He is talking about the poetic tradition and neglects the fact that even the poetic tradition is a complex mixture of written and oral poetry and the elements that go into them. It was only in his later writings that he realized that in poetic composition many elements are involved. In his poetic dramas, he sought to brodent his scope.
Question :- 6. How would you like to explain Eliot's theory of ddepersonalization? You can explain with the help of chemical reaction in presence of catalyst agent, Platinum.
Ans :- *Tradition and individual talent is very much interesting essay which tries to bring in scientific elements into arts and humanity.which is very abstract like creative process.
*Here for that Eliot refers to education of sulfuric said (H2 SO4) oISO4. sul fer 1 has 3 molecules of oxygenl H20 Hydrogen 1 has 2 atoms of oxygen Which is made by mixing of sulphurous acid but only if platinum is present .
*The formation of sulfuric asid required two elements but entire process will not take place. If there is no catalysit that is platinum is most important .
*poets mind also remains unaffected mind that records everything He says answer his chemical reaction that 'the who suffers and the mind which creates are different e. And also here dissection about other critics views on creative process mention plato, Aristotle, WORDSWORTH and Drayden (1: Aristotle says thought on making 2: Drayden about invention fertility and clothing 3:-1. A.RICHRDS also present how present art thought science .
*Afterwords spekers moves towards Eliot and I.A.Richards And other many things that how it merge art and science and how to explain art with the help of science.
Question :- 7. Explain: " Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality."
Ans :- In this Eliot says that poetry is just a powerful feeling..poet also keep hos emotion in poetry. It also not use of emotion and personal expression but explanation of poets mind and his imagination and feelings.
Question :- 8
Write two points on which one can write critique on 'T.S. Eliot as a critic'.
Ans :-Eliot marked that A work of art doesn't exist in a isolation, it exist in a continuity, it is part of chain. Eliot says that poet has to shift Great from the ordinary to his poetic work.
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T.S.ELIOT'S "Tradition and individual talent "was published in 1919 in The Egoist -THE times literary supplement .Later , the essay was published in The Sacred Wood:Essay on poetry and Criticism in 1920/2. This essay is described by David Lodge as the most celebrated critical essay in the english of the 20th century . The essay is divided into three main sections :
(1) Concept of tradition
(2)Theory of Depersonalization and poetry
(3)Poet’s sense of tradition and the impersonality of poetry are complementary things.
Here is some questions ans :-
QUESTION:-1.
- How would you like to explain Eliot's concept of Tradition? Do you agree with it?
ANS :-
Here in tradition and individual talent Eliot has presented tradition in positive sence as it is not only inherited trend or any particular method which should be followed, but he has given concept of merging past and present with the sence of history . Tradition is not only describes in the sence following but as an awareness of history to make future .
◆QUESTION :-2 what do you understand by historical sense ? ( use these quotes to explain your understanding )
Ans :-
=>"The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence"
This historical sense, which is a sense of the timeless as well as of the temporal and of the timeless and of the temporal together, is what makes a writer traditional.
Historical sense is the sense of the timeless and the temporal, as well as of the timeless and the temporal together. A writer, who has much sense of tradition, is fully conscious of his own generation, of his place in the present, but he is also actually conscious of his relationship with the writers of the past.
Question :-3What is the relationship between “tradition” and “the individual talent,” according to the poet T. S. Eliot?

Ans :- For Eliot tradition and individual talent an existing does not cut itself from the tradition , we have to work in an interdisciplinary kind of a manner . In answer of that how individual talent associated with tradition he is says that ....... Individual talent does not cut itself away from the tradition for eliot Tradition is already existing monument and individual talent can only marginally and a bir , extend it a bit . Tradition and individual talent they both go together . It can be separate .
Question :- 4 Explain: "Some can absorb knowledge, the more tardy must sweat for it.Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum".
Ans :- Here eliot wants that readers go to wide reading and according to him William Shakespeare is unexpectational highly educated lin convinsed language,as per Johnson mensions in his preface to Shakespeare that "He know no other language than english "So we could think here that he was not highly educated or a scholar who had knowledge of many language but still he was famous Arnold mentions that great epochs of creativity doesnt come often and he mentions for examples Renaissance was very high period shakespeare is exceptional in this that in his biography there's no mention that Shakespeare went to uni .lt seems that he knew na other language than english according to Johnson So, here is one question that how Shakespeare for in Eliot's rule, then eliot himself have an answer by borrowing thought from Arnold that great epochs of creativity doesn't doen often like great period of Renaissance in english history can't come often and further also says that according to Arnold critics have important role ti play for making history or rather building opinion about someone very remarkable or important.This is the individual talent or the quality of absorbing makes Shakespeare great without so many efforts We can say that Eliot says that it is not necessary to get high education for being good writer, it is the absorbing or we can say the hard work, labouring that makes you more success. So we can say Shakespeare lived his age.
Question :- 5 Explain: "Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry"
Ans :- Eliot sees the poet's mind as "a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together." He says that concepts like "sublimity", "greatness" or "intensity" of emotion are irrelevant. It is not the greatness of the emotion that matters, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure under which the artistic process takes place, that is important. In this way he dissociates the notion on the artistic process from an added emphasis on 'genius' and the exceptional mind.
★Eliot refuse the idea that poetry is the expression of poet’s personality. Experiences in the life of the man may have no place in his poems, and vice-versa. The emotions occasioned by events in the personal life of the poet are not important. What matters is the emotion transmuted into poetry, the feelings expressed in the poetry. "Emotions which he has never experienced will serve his turn as well as those familiar to him". Eliot critiques Wordsworth's definition of poetry in the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads: "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling: it takes its origins from emotion recollected in tranquility."For Eliot, poetry is not recollection of feeling, "it is a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences . .... . it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation." Eliot defines that "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality." For him, the emotion of art is impersonal, and the artist can achieve this impersonality only by and being conscious of the tradition, He is talking about the poetic tradition and neglects the fact that even the poetic tradition is a complex mixture of written and oral poetry and the elements that go into them. It was only in his later writings that he realized that in poetic composition many elements are involved. In his poetic dramas, he sought to brodent his scope.
Question :- 6. How would you like to explain Eliot's theory of ddepersonalization? You can explain with the help of chemical reaction in presence of catalyst agent, Platinum.
Ans :- *Tradition and individual talent is very much interesting essay which tries to bring in scientific elements into arts and humanity.which is very abstract like creative process.
*Here for that Eliot refers to education of sulfuric said (H2 SO4) oISO4. sul fer 1 has 3 molecules of oxygenl H20 Hydrogen 1 has 2 atoms of oxygen Which is made by mixing of sulphurous acid but only if platinum is present .
*The formation of sulfuric asid required two elements but entire process will not take place. If there is no catalysit that is platinum is most important .
*poets mind also remains unaffected mind that records everything He says answer his chemical reaction that 'the who suffers and the mind which creates are different e. And also here dissection about other critics views on creative process mention plato, Aristotle, WORDSWORTH and Drayden (1: Aristotle says thought on making 2: Drayden about invention fertility and clothing 3:-1. A.RICHRDS also present how present art thought science .
*Afterwords spekers moves towards Eliot and I.A.Richards And other many things that how it merge art and science and how to explain art with the help of science.
Question :- 7. Explain: " Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality."
Ans :- In this Eliot says that poetry is just a powerful feeling..poet also keep hos emotion in poetry. It also not use of emotion and personal expression but explanation of poets mind and his imagination and feelings.
Question :- 8
Write two points on which one can write critique on 'T.S. Eliot as a critic'.
Ans :-Eliot marked that A work of art doesn't exist in a isolation, it exist in a continuity, it is part of chain. Eliot says that poet has to shift Great from the ordinary to his poetic work.
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