T. S. Eliot: Tradition and the individual talent

Thomas Steams Eliot: 20th cent. Angle-American poet and critic. He belongs to the New Critical Formalist literary theory, and is " classicist in nature, royalist in politics, and Anglo-Catholic in religion." (1089) "Objective Correlative": " The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an 'objective correlative'; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula of that particular emotion; such that when the …

…working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all." (1097 Emotions VS. Feelings: Emotions: Are associated with experience / events in one's personal life. Feelings: Are vaguer, more floating impressions and images that are somehow less personal and more aesthetic. Romantics New Critics " Emotions " " Not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion." "Recollected" " They finally unite." " in tranquility" "Concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation." (1097)