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“Concept of tradition and individual talent and depersonalization of the poet T.S.Eliot”
Submitted to:
ABM Monirul Haque
Chairman , Department of English
Submitted By:
In Tradition and Individual Talent, he propounded the doctrine that poetry should be impersonal and free itself from Romantic practices, ‘the progress of an author is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality’. He sees that in this depersonalization, the art approaches science. For Eliot, emotions in poetry must be depersonalized. Artistic self-effacement is essential for great artistic work.
He opposed Coleridge who says that a worth of a poet is judged by his personal impressions and feelings. Eliot says that impressionism is not a safe guide. A poet in the present must be judged with reference to the poets in the past. Comparison and analysis are the important tools for a critic. The critic must see whether there is a fusion of thought and feeling in the poet, depersonalized his emotions and whether he has the sense of tradition. So these are the objective standards. But what emotion is Eliot talking of? He speaks against the poet’s emotions. Art, too has emotions; but different from those of the artist and this difference is to be maintained for a great work of art. Eliot says: “The difference between art and the event is always absolute”
His theory of impersonality goes even further when he criticizes Wordsworth’s view that poetry has its, Origin in emotions recollected in tranquility”. In his view poetry is an organization of different concepts and for such organization to take place perfect objectivity on the part of the poet is essential. There is no question of the poet expressing his personal emotions. To Eliot, The poet’s emotions and passions must be depersonalized; he must be as impersonal and objective as a scientist. The personality of the artist is not important: important
“Concept of tradition and individual talent and depersonalization of the poet T.S.Eliot”
Submitted to:
ABM Monirul Haque
Chairman , Department of English
Submitted By:
In Tradition and Individual Talent, he propounded the doctrine that poetry should be impersonal and free itself from Romantic practices, ‘the progress of an author is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality’. He sees that in this depersonalization, the art approaches science. For Eliot, emotions in poetry must be depersonalized. Artistic self-effacement is essential for great artistic work.
He opposed Coleridge who says that a worth of a poet is judged by his personal impressions and feelings. Eliot says that impressionism is not a safe guide. A poet in the present must be judged with reference to the poets in the past. Comparison and analysis are the important tools for a critic. The critic must see whether there is a fusion of thought and feeling in the poet, depersonalized his emotions and whether he has the sense of tradition. So these are the objective standards. But what emotion is Eliot talking of? He speaks against the poet’s emotions. Art, too has emotions; but different from those of the artist and this difference is to be maintained for a great work of art. Eliot says: “The difference between art and the event is always absolute”
His theory of impersonality goes even further when he criticizes Wordsworth’s view that poetry has its, Origin in emotions recollected in tranquility”. In his view poetry is an organization of different concepts and for such organization to take place perfect objectivity on the part of the poet is essential. There is no question of the poet expressing his personal emotions. To Eliot, The poet’s emotions and passions must be depersonalized; he must be as impersonal and objective as a scientist. The personality of the artist is not important: important