Name: Makwana Monika Roll No:-21 Topic: - T.S. Eliot’s Tradition and Individual Talent Paper no:-7 Literary Theory and Criticism Course: - M.A Email I’D: - makwanamonika76@gmail.com Institute: - S. B. Gardi Department of English Introduction The essay ' Tradition and the Individual Talent’ was written by T. S. Eliot. He is a famous critic. Tradition and individual talent is an attack on certain critical views in Romanticism particularly up on the idea that a poem is primarily an expression of the personality of the poet. T. S. Eliot argues that a great poem always asserts and that the poet must develop a sense of the pastiness of the past. There is great importance of tradition in the present poem. Tradition should not be inherited but should be obtained by great labor. Past should be altered by present as much as the present is directed by past. In fact tradition acquires a wider significance in Eliot’s writing. It involves a historical sense that was really e...