| Hulme, "R&C" (1911) | Pound, "Retrospect" (1914) | T.S. Eliot, "Tradition and the IT" (1919) | TSE-- Other Early Essays | |
| Politics (Historical, Social issues, Gender, War, Alliances, Liberal Conservative) | TEH=conservative..original
sin
liberals=noble savage |
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| Religion, Authority, Science | believes in authority
Church of England believes religious instinct is natural. doesn't seem to take science too seriously |
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| Emotions, Classic and Romantic, Imagination/ fancy | defines Romanticism as a disease; "spilt religion" | |||
| Analogies | r=treacle
image of architect's curve |
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| Personality, Individuality | downplays individual, not perfectible, not that free, | we have a prejudice for originalilty; but poetic greatness really comes from being able to incorporate and change the tradition | ||
| Poetry
Tradition |
previous tradition governs
your opinions (downgrades possibility of originality)
roman is exhausted, we need need poetic territory IN favor of craft, discipline, and tradition over genius, inspiration |
impotance of histoircal knowlege,
of imitating ancients (emulation)
What remains for us to do.. |
Tradition is more important than the individual talent. | |
| Criticism, Elitism | poet-critic | poet-critic | poet-critic | |
| subject matter/ nature of poetry | can be about hard, dry, small things | imagism-- direct presentation of the thing | poetry not defined by sublimity of its subject-matter | |