Modernism XII

TS Eliot was concerned that poetry attain what he called impersonality.
‘Tradition,’ he said, depended on the poet obtaining an historical sense, and:
this historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence; the historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in [...]






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