Part one of term paper
Their respective essays ‘Tradition And The Individual Talent’ and ‘Modern Fiction’ serve only to underline the tremendous difference in the views of Eliot and Woolf with regard to literary tradition and the role of the artist. Eliot sees it as being incumbent upon the artist to, not just be aware, but to have studied t ...

Part two of term paper
... more effective his improduct and more closely linked to the tradition. Eliot goes on to claim the necessity of a tradition in literary criticism aswell, “No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. I mean this as a principle of aesthetic, not merely historical, criticism.” He ...