ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -"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).

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Sometime during the early days of September, 1919, T. S. Eliot-just thirty years old and working as a clerk in the foreign-exchange division of Lloyds Bank in London-sat down and wrote his manifesto as a poet and critic, “Tradition and the Individual Talent.” Its effects were hardly immediate.