Premium Content A Historical Approach to T.S. Eliot and his Theory of Tradition in Creative Writing
By Anonymous - March 26, 2007
To understand T.S. Eliot as a writer, one must look at his own view of creative writing and his passion for tradition. Eliot’s idea of tradition can be misinterpreted: “Most often it is perceived as a smug and pompous intransigence to change…backward-looking traditionalism, self-satisfied with the way things have been and oppose to any idea of…
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