...extraordinarily clever and provocative essay, Tradition and the Individual Talent, he asserts that " the progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality." This, on the face of it, is so demonstrably untrue that Mr Eliot is driven to adopt a theory, for the...

...and that is the Individual. / Art never improves, but the material of Art is never quite the same. r The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. r Poetry is not a turning loose of emotions, but an escape from emotion. SWALLOWS By HJ MASSINGHAM....

...happens is a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. There remains to define this process of depersonalization and its relation to the sense of tradition....

...happens is a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.6 The relation of this last passage to the one before is perhaps not entirely self-evident...

...happens is a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. There remains to define this procej^ofdepersonalization and its relation to the sense of tradition....

...happens is a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. There remains to define this process of depersonalization and its relation to the sense of tradition....

...people in the past. This type of criticism dissolves what Eliot called the artist's "personality": "the progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality."3 8 Four months later, in December, Eliot wrote that literature is liberated from its...

...monarch of Victorian nonsense and ranked first in John Ruskin's "List of the Best Hundred Authors." 45The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. ... I have tried to point out the importance of the relation of the poem to other poems by other authors,...

...poetry flow through him or her by rejecting the voice of self in favor of the work and the tradition: "The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality."53 Eliot's rejection of artistic self-expression in favor of form, order, and tradition...

...happens is a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. There remains to define this process of depersonalization and its relation to the sense of tradition....