The Paradox of Originality
T.S. Eliot on Traditionalism
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T.S. Eliot argues in “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” that the more original and singular a poet is, the more “traditional” she will be. Not traditional in the sense of boringly repeating what has come before, but traditional in the se…
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