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发帖数: 4048 | 1 In a 1922 essay, "Tradition and the Individual Talent," Eliot offered the
following notes toward a definition of poetry:
"...the historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own
generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of the literature
of Europe from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own
country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order. This
historical sense, which is a sense of the timeless as well as of the temporal |
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