...correct position, unaffected by either the journalistic or the pedagogical error. Let us hear him speak: If the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted...successes, "tradition" should positively be discouraged. . . . Tradition is a matter of much wider significance. It cannot be inherited, and if you want it...

...correct position, unaffected by either the journalistic or the pedagogical error. Let us hear him speak: If the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted...successes, "tradition" should positively be discouraged. . . . Tradition is a matter of much wider significance. It cannot be inherited, and if you want it...

...Tradition is not to be confused with an inert acceptance of the past, or with simple conservatism, or 'following the ways of the immediate generation before...us in a blind or timid adherence to its successes'. What it is, on the other hand, is formulated in one of Eliot's classic passages (Selected Essays, p....

...Talent" has been extremely influential in AngloAmerican criticism and scholarship. TS Eliot states that "if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted...to its successes, 'tradition' should positively be discouraged."12 Since the modernist revolt against tradition was directed primarily against the most...

...201). ln his influential essay, "Tradition and the 1ndividual Talent" ([1919] 1950), Eliot stated that: Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down,...Tradition is a matter of much wider significance. 1t cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must attain it by great labour, (p. 4) Eliot found this...

...Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisred in following the ways of the immediare generation before us in a blind or timid adherence...simple currents soon lost in the sand; and novelty is betrer than repetition. Tradition is a matrer of much wider significance. It cannot be inhetired, and...

..."Tradition and the Individual Talent." He criticizes the contemporary view of tradition with his statement: "If the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted...successes, 'tradition' should positively be discouraged" ("Tradition," 49). A proper sense of tradition, he claims, "involves, in the first place, the historical...

...masterpiece. In his influential essay, "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (l9l9), Eliot stated that: Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down,...discouraged. We have seen many such simple currents snon lost in the sand; and novelty is berter than repetition. Tradition is a matrer of much wider significance....

...Sacred Wood, having rightly noted that in English "we seldom speak of tradition," likewise declared that if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted...timid adherence to its successes, 'tradition' should be positively discouraged. [Instead] the past should be altered by the present as much as the present...

...vigorously. And I do not mean the impressionahle period of adolescence, hut the period of full maturity. Vet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted...in following the ways of the immediate generation hefore us in a hlind or timid adherence to its successes, "tradition" should positively he discouraged....