Yet when the best type of traditions, of giving down, consisted in after the methods of the immediate generation before us

Yet when the best type of traditions, of giving down, consisted in after the methods of the immediate generation before us

It involves, originally, the historic sense, which we could possibly name nearly essential to the a person who would remain a poet beyond his twenty-fifth seasons; together with historical awareness involves a perception, not simply of this pastness of the past, but of the appeal.

Both Eliot and Burrow regret the things they read as a contemporary tendency to overvalue individuality. Continue reading “Yet when the best type of traditions, of giving down, consisted in after the methods of the immediate generation before us”