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A writer’s most individual and mature work can be the place where earlier poets’ influence becomes most powerfully active.","Answer",{"name":116,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":117},"How does the book frame the function of criticism?",{"text":118,"@type":114},"It treats criticism as an inevitable part of reading and intellectual life, focusing on how we articulate what we experience when judging a work and how such judgment reveals mental processes.",{"name":120,"@type":111,"acceptedAnswer":121},"Which kinds of literary subjects does the collection cover?",{"text":122,"@type":114},"The essays move across literary criticism and interpretation, dramatic poetry and rhetoric, and studies of specific authors and historical traditions in English literature.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":125,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":127,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":129,"site_id":62},330546,1790328337,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":132},{"doc_id":129,"user_id":133,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":134,"doc_module":4,"category_id":14,"category_name":15,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":135,"file_id":136,"file_url":137,"file_type":138,"file_size":139,"view_count":105,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":140,"language":141,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":142,"faqs":143,"seo_title":144,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":145,"read_time":146},687197207919,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/avatar/a000253d6f5f7c60be?x-image-process=image/resize,m_fixed,w_180,h_180&k=1779446848396160552","Table of Contents  \nTitle Page  \nTable of Contents Copyright Dedication Acknowledgments I  \nTradition and the Individual Talent (1917)  \nThe Function of Criticism (1923) II  \n“Rhetoric” and Poetic Drama (1919)  \nA Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry (1928)  \nEuripides and Professor Murray (1918)  \nSeneca in Elizabethan Translation (1927) III  \nThe Elizabethan Dramatists (1924)  \nChristopher Marlowe (1918)  \nShakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca (1927)  \nHamlet and His Problems (1919)  \nBen Jonson (1919)  \nThomas Middleton (1927)  \nThomas Heywood (1931)  \nCyril Tourneur (1931)  \nJohn Ford (1932)  \nPhilip Massinger (1920) IV  \nDante (1929) V  \nThe Metaphysical Poets (1921)  \nAndrew Marvell (1921)  \nJohn Dryden (1922)  \nWilliam Blake (1920)  \nSwinburne As Poet (1920) VI  \nLancelot Andrewes (1926)  \nJohn Bramhall (1927)  \nThoughts After Lambeth (1931) VII  \nBaudelaire (1930)  \nArnold and Pater (1930)  \nFrancis Herbert Bradley (1926)  \nMarie Lloyd (1923)  \nWilkie Collins and Dickens (1927)  \nThe Humanism of Irving Babbitt (1927) Second Thoughts on Humanism (1929) Charles Whibley (1931)  \nAbout the Author  \nFootnotes  \nCopyright, 1932, by  \nHarcourt, Brace and Company, Inc.  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.  \nFor information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York  \n10003.  \n[www.hmhco.com](www.hmhco.com)  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.  \neISBN 978-0-547-54379-6  \nv1 .0314  \nTO Harriet Shaw Weaver  \nIN GRATITUDE,  \nAND IN RECOGNITION OF HER SERVICES TO ENGLISH LETTERS  \nMY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS are due to Messrs. Methuen & Co. Ltd. and Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (for the parts of The Sacred Wood, reprinted); to Messrs. Doubleday, Doran & Co. (for essays reprinted from For Lancelot Andrewes); to The Hogarth Press (Homage to John Dryden); to The Haslewood Press (for A Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry); to Messrs. Constable & Co. Ltd. (for Seneca in Elizabethan Translation, originally printed as Introduction to the Tudor Translations Series edition of the Tenne Tragedies); to the Shakespeare Association and the Oxford University Press (Shakespeare and the Senecan Tradition); to Mr. Walter de la Mare and the Royal Society of Literature (Arnold and Pater); to The Blackamore Press(Baudelaire); to the English Association (Charles Whibley). Also to The Egoist, The Athenaeum, The Times Literary Supplement, Art and Letters, The Hound and Horn, The Bookman, and The Criterion, in which most of these papers originally appeared.  \nMy thanks are also due to Mr. B. L. Richmond, without whose suggestions and encouragement the essays on Elizabethan dramatists would not have been written; and to Mr. F. V. Morley for his assistance in selecting the essays and in reading the proofs, and for his pertinacity in harrying me todo what work I have myself done in preparation of this volume.  \nT. S. E.  \nLondon: April, 1932.  \nI  \nTradition and the Individual Talent (1917)  \nIN English writing we seldom speak of tradition, though we occasionally apply its name in deploring its absence. We cannot refer to “the tradition” or to “a tradition”; at most, we employ the adjective in saying that the poetry of So-and-so is “traditional” or even “too traditional.” Seldom, perhaps, does the word appear except in a phrase ofcensure. If otherwise, it is vaguely approbative, with the implication, as to the work approved, of some pleasing archaeological reconstruction. You can hardly make the word agreeable to English ears without this comfortable reference to the reassuring science of archaeology.  \nCertainly the word is not likely to appear in our appreciations of living or dead writers. Every nation, eve","cbCaiq2mI3eWkX7E","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiq2mI3eWkX7E","pdf",1417498,261,"English","# Table of Contents\n## Tradition and the Individual Talent (1917)\n## The Function of Criticism (1923)\n## “Rhetoric” and Poetic Drama (1919)\n## A Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry (1928)\n## Euripides and Professor Murray (1918)\n## Seneca in Elizabethan Translation (1927)\n## The Elizabethan Dramatists (1924)\n## Christopher Marlowe (1918)\n## Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca (1927)\n## Hamlet and His Problems (1919)\n## Ben Jonson (1919)\n## Thomas Middleton (1927)\n## Thomas Heywood (1931)\n## Cyril Tourneur (1931)\n## John Ford (1932)\n## Philip Massinger (1920)\n## Dante (1929)\n## The Metaphysical Poets (1921)\n## Andrew Marvell (1921)\n## John Dryden (1922)\n## William Blake (1920)\n## Swinburne As Poet (1920)\n## Lancelot Andrewes (1926)\n## John Bramhall (1927)\n## Thoughts After Lambeth (1931)\n## Baudelaire (1930)\n## Arnold and Pater (1930)\n## Francis Herbert Bradley (1926)\n## Marie Lloyd (1923)\n## Wilkie Collins and Dickens (1927)\n## The Humanism of Irving Babbitt (1927)","[{\"question\":\"What is the central idea of “Tradition and the Individual Talent” in this volume?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that tradition is not mere repetition of past successes. 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