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”
