4.0. Objectives
4.1. Introduction: T. S. Eliot as a Critic
4.2. Tradition and the Individual Talent’
4.2.2. Concept of ‘Individual Talent’
Self Check Questions for 4.2.1 and 4.2.2.
4.2.3. Impersonality
Self Check Questions for 4.2.3.
4.3. Let’s Sum up
4.4. Glossary of some of the Key terms
4.5. Reading List
Thus Eliot denounces the romantic criticism of the nineteenth century (particularly Wordsworth’s theory of poetry); second, it underlines the importance of ‘tradition’ and examines the correlation between ‘tradition’ and ‘individual talent’ and finally, it announces the death of the author (i.e., the empirical author, the author in the biographical sense of term) and shifts the focus from the author to the text.