TS Eliot’s Poetic Theory of Impersonality in “Tradition and the Individual Talent”: A Critical Analysis
Author : Dipika Rani
Abstract :
The Noble Laureate Thomas Streams Eliot, a versatile poet-critic, gave a new dimension to English literary criticism by the remarkable gift of crystallizing his thoughts in striking and trenchant phrases. His well-known essay “Tradition and Individual Talent” is generally taken as a manifesto of Eliot’s critical creed for containing all the key-principles of his critical vein. The present paper aims at discussing Eliot’s view that the poetry is an organisation rather than inspiration and the poetic process is the process of fusing the disparate experiences and emotions into a new whole. Eliot’s critical theory of impersonality in poetry, a modern expression of his literary classicism, rejects the romantic subjectivism and emphasizes the value of objective standard in poetry.
Keywords :
Catalytic agent, classicism, emotion, impersonality, intensity.
