This document summarizes T.S. Eliot's essay "Tradition and Individual Talent". It discusses what depersonalization means in the context of the essay, provides biographical details about Eliot, and outlines the key points of the essay. The essay is divided into three parts that discuss Eliot's concept of tradition, the theory of depersonalization, and his conclusion. Eliot argues that tradition is obtained through hard work, not imitation, and that honest criticism of poetry should focus on the work itself rather than the poet, in line with the theory of depersonalization.

1. TOPIC :- EVALUATED THE ESSAY ‘TRADITION AND
INDIVIDUAL TALENT
• Hetal Dabhi
• Class sem :-2
• Year -2018-20
• Paper no. 7 (Literary Theory and Criticism)
• Email :- Dabhihetal5500@gmail.com
• Submitted to :- S. B. Gardi Department of English

2. WHAT IS DEPERSONALIZATION?
• Depersonalization means which in not personal
and impersonal things.
• Here in this essay Eliot gives important to poetry
rather than the poet which is Depersonalization.

4. ABOUT T. S ELIOT
• He was born in 26th September, Missouri, U. S and
died in January 4,1965,London.
• T. S Eliot was an essayist, publisher, playwright,
literary and social critic.
• One of the major poet of 20th century.

5. ABOUT THE ESSAY
• The Essay was published in 1919 in egoist –the time literary supplement.
• But later, The Essay was published in The Sacred Wood :Essay on poetry
and Criticism in 1920.
• This essay is described by David Lodge as the most celebrated critical
essay in the English of the 20th century.

6. This essay divided in to three parts
1. Concept of tradition
2. Theory of Depersonalization
3. Conclusion

7. ELIOT CONCEPT OF TRADITION
• Tradition is not the slavish imitation of the past
• Tradition can not be inherited, it can only be obtained
by hard labour.
• Tradition can only be obtained by those who have the
historical sense.

8. THE THEORY OF DEPERSONALIZATION
• Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is
directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.
• Chemical reaction.
• Theory of poetry

9. ELIOT CONCLUDES
• 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.
• The poet can know is to be done if he acquires a sense
of tradition; the historic sense which makes him
conscious not only of the present but also of the
present moment of the past.