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Eliot's most important and influential essays, first published in 1919 in the Times Literary Supplement. Tradition and the Individual Talent is often considered the unofficial manifesto of Eliot’s critical creed. He took his so-called theory of “tradition” from both Babbitt and Pound. In this essay, Eliot addresses the relationship between tradition and originality in poetry, arguing that the individual poet must both acknowledge and engage with the literary tradition that precedes them in order to create truly original work. Eliot’s theory, in this 3 part essay, claimed that the major works of art, both past and present, formed an“ideal order” which is continually modified by subsequent works of art. The central implication here is that contemporary writers should find common ground with that tradition even as they extended redefining\u003Cbr>continuing it. Eliot effectively succeeded in the European literary the humanists’ onslaught tradition, against the Romantics, and bringing into prominence Dante, the Metaphysical poets, and the French symbolists. Eliot also advanced an poetry, whereby the “impersonal”notion of poet expresses not a personality, but a precise formulation of thought and feeling such as is lacking in “ordinary”experience.\u003Cbr>Conception of Tradition: Tradition, for Eliot, implies the recognition of the continuity of literature. The modern poets should have a critical judgement as to which of the writers of the past continue to be of significance in the present. They should also have a better knowledge of these significant writers obtained through painstaking effort. He also illustrates the dynamic conception of tradition, which shows that just asthe past directs and guides the present, so the present alters and modifies the past. He also points out that in order to know the right tradition, the poet must judge critically what are the main trendsand what are not.\u003Cbr>Impersonality of Poetry: The theory of impersonality of poetry is a natural corollary to Eliot’s concept of tradition. 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