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TRADITION AND INDIVIDUAL TALENT
(SYNOPSIS)
This blog is
designed in a way that it provides a synopsis of ‘Tradition and Individual
Talent’ – an essay by the most influential of all the modern critics,
T.S.Eliot. Thomas Sterns Eliot, the distinguished poet, and critic has best explained
his critical views in his essays. Eliot had declared himself as ‘a classicist
in literature’. As a part of the classroom task, here I have shared some views
captured through educative videos.
Well, to make it
very interesting for the students of English Literature, not only limited to a
particular area but worldwide and with an intention to share every drop of
knowledge at various digital platforms, the Head of Department of M K Bhavnagar
University, Prof. Dr. Dilip Barad Sir has introduced the course called ‘T. S.
Eliot’s Tradition and Individual Talent’ along with other informative courses
in an app ‘Flinnt’ which is India’s most exciting learning app. The videos are
also available on YouTube.
Video
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Description
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1
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The first video offers information about the 20th century English Criticism and how it begins with I.A. Richards's "Practical Criticism" as well as the School of New Criticism. The video also informs about the three segments
of Eliot's works.
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2
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The second video provides information regarding T. S. Eliot's concept of
tradition and how Individual Talent is associated with it. It also says how criticism is as important as a creative activity. It describes the positive
connotation of the word "tradition" as well as how it is associated
with a historical sense.
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3
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This
video gives an excellent explanation regarding "history in the poet's bones" and how Shakespeare seems to be an exception in this law. Eliot,
in a very artistic way borrows a thought of Matthew Arnold to support his
view from the possible exceptions. To praise the individual talent of
Shakespeare, he quotes,
"Some
can absorb knowledge, the more tardy must sweat for it".
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4
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This video provides information regarding the process of depersonalization with a
scientific formula. With the help of chemical reaction, Eliot attempts to explain art with the lens of science.
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5
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Well,
this fifth and the last video has to offer the three significant parts of the essay.
1.
Tradition and its importance in the historical sense.
2. The poetic process as 'not an exception but an escape from personality'
3.
The last part also sifts the attention from the author to text which is the
prime focus of New Criticism.
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Here are the
questions which I have asked in the project blended learning-
Video 1
Question-
How can we justify Eliot's statement
when he says, "I am a Classicist in Literature and a royalist in
politics" ?
Video 2
Question-
How Eliot seemed to connect the
principle of aesthetic with the interdependence of the past and the present?
Video 3
Question-
Though divided by the epochs or age,
what does Eliot mean when he says "the main current" of literature?
Question-
What is poetic sensibility according
to Eliot?
Video 4
Question-
How the process of depersonalization is related with the sense of tradition?
Video 5
Question-
How Eliot connects the 'emotion of art' with the sense of
tradition?
Thank you!
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