essay · 2025
Tradition and the Individual Talent
by T. S. Eliot
By tradition Eliot means the archaic rules put forward by Classical writers, individual talent refers to the potential of writer to produce his work keeping in view tradition.
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"Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919) is an essay written by poet and literary critic T. S. Eliot. The essay was first published in The Egoist (1919) and later in Eliot's first book of criticism, The Sacred Wood (1920). The essay is also available in Eliot's Selected Prose and Selected Essays.
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