《传统及个人才能》(英)[英]艾略特.docVIP

Tradition and the Individual TalentT.S. EliotIIN English writing we seldom speak of tradition, though we occasionally apply its name in deploring its absence. We cannot refer to the tradition or to a tradition; at most, we employ the adjective in saying that the poetry of So-and-so is traditional or even too traditional. Seldom, perhaps, does the word appear except in a phrase of censure. If otherwise, it is vaguely approbative, with the implication, as to the work approved, of some pleasing archeological reconstruction. You can hardly make the word agreeable to English ears without this comfo