This document provides information about T.S. Eliot's influential essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent". It notes that Eliot was both a poet and critic, and compares his work to Sidney and Coleridge. The essay is divided into three parts and discusses Eliot's concept of tradition, the necessity of historical sense for poets, and his theory of impersonal poetry. It analyzes Eliot's view that a poet must be aware of past works and alter the present with the past.

1. Topic:- Information about T.S.Eliot Essays.
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2. About T.S.Eliot
“Tradition and the Individual Talent” is
an essay written by Poet but he
performed duel role as Poet and Critic.
He is compares with Sir Philip Sidney
and Samuel Coleridge.
The present essay makes Eliot’s
conception of the relationship
between the Poet and the literary
tradition very influential.
T.S.Eliot was a great Critic, Poet
,Playwright and Journalist.

3. This Eassay divided in three part
This essay was First publish
in ‘ The Egoist’.
 The Egoist’ was a literary
Magazine, This essay was
later publish in ‘The sacred
wood’ which is Eliot’s First
book of Critism

4. The Concept of Tradition
 English men’s
English men have a
habit to feel proud on
themselves.
That is the proud for
their Creativity and
more ‘less’ Critically.
English have a habit of
Conclusion.
 French men’s
French there is
mass of Critical
writing.
French that they
have habit of
Critical Method.

5. Continue..
 He said that poet wand uniqueness.
 He said that Tradition and Individuality go
together, The historical sense In necessary for
any poet.
 Then Eliot talk about Tradition and Historical
sense he says that if the form of Tradition
remained only in blind adherence of deal
people.
 Then it would be lost or such Tradition should
be destroyed.

6. Continue...
According to Eliot :- In every Tradition also
there is a bit of novelty. Tradition a matter of
much wider significance.
Historical sense:- The historical sense froces a
Man to write not only by the own generation,
but with the whole age of English literature.
 It harmonizes Two different things timeless
and temporality in Poet’s work.
No Poet, No artist of any atr has his complete
meaning alone.

7. Continue...
He wirte both ways past and present not
only present Tradition following in his work.
The past should be altered by the present as
much as the present is directed by the past

8. The Theory of Impersonal Poetry.
Honest Criticism and Sensitive appreciation
is directed not upon the Poet but upon the
poetry Eliot compares criticism with science .
There are two gases needed :Oxygen and
Sulfur dioxide and also they must have the
presence of Filament Platinum.
He compares this Platinum with the Poet.

9.  Continue...
In whole process the filament of Platinum
plays vital role.
But yet that role is indirect in that process
Platinum remains.
 The poem created by the Poet shows his
personality.
Poet’s own emotion can not be taken place
in the Poem.

10. Conclusion
 It is very hard thing to take Interest in poetry to keep
a Poet aside.
We usually read poem with the name and fame of the
Poem we can not separate from each other .
A poem must know that to reach at the level of
Impersonality , he Frist has to sacrifices himself and
has to surrender himself totally to that work.
 So, Eliot criticise Wordsworth’s .