T.S. Elliot's "Tradition And The Individual Talent" And Alain Locke's "The New Negro
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T.S. Elliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent" and Alain Locke's "The
Although many of the authors that we have studied this semester saw
fit to express what they considered the Modern artist's relationship to
tradition should be, two authors stand out because they explicitly say what
they fel ....
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.... that many people
hold concerning tradition. He found that most critics did not really use
the word "Except in a phrase of censure…. If otherwise… with the
implication…. Of some pleasing archaeological reconstruction" (1405).
Critics were in effect using tradition only to describe something quaint
and archaic. The problem with this view is that it creates the
misconception among the general public that good poetry is not at all
related to anything that has been done before, and it ....
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