Part one of term paper
What ultimately lasts in writing is anything with aesthetics. T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf agree that there are aesthetic values in writings. They have similar backgrounds regarding knowledge in English literary tradition that they are able to draw from, but their definitions of aesthetics seem to collide head on which creates the problem ...

Part two of term paper
... class. Also it was mostly men that were familiar with the father tongue because women did not gain the privilege to be educated until modern times. Any women who did have knowledge in the father tongue had to do so secretly. Eliot also predetermines that we know the great writers of his time at that were are familiar with English literary tradition. In the essay Tradition and the Individual Talent, Eliot says, " … the historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generati ...