LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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In English literature, we cannot refer to “the tradition” or to “a tradition;” at most, we employ the adjective in saying that the poetry of so-and-so is “traditional” or even “too traditional.”
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Tradition is the great conversation which links all English literature and is a coherent and stable cannon.
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All of the above
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A and B only
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Detailed explanation-1: -According to Eliot’s conception tradition-and the individual talent go together. Tradition is the gift of the historic sense. A. writer with this sense of tradition is fully conscious of his own generation, of his place in the present; but he is also acutely conscious of his relationship with the writers of the past.
Detailed explanation-2: -“Tradition and the Individual Talent” can be categorized along with Eliot’s other works in the field of literary criticism. In “Tradition and the Individual Talent, ” Eliot discusses not only how poems should be written but also how they should be read and appreciated by critics.
Detailed explanation-3: -RELATIONSHIP OF THE POET TO ITS AUTHOR: T S ELIOT believes that a poem has complex and vital relation to its author. Strangely enough, the creation of a poem has nothing to do with the personal emotions and feelings of the poet. He reasons it because the art-emotion is different from the personal emotions of the poet.