摘要
“Tradition and the Individual Talent” written by Anglo-American poet and literary critic Thomas Stearns Eliot is one of the most important essays of the school of New Criticism. As the title of this essay suggests, it discusses the relation between literary tradition and the poet as well as that between poet and poetry;moreover, T. S. Eliot puts forward his famous "Impersonal Theory" of poetry in his essay."Tradition" and "Impersonal Theory" are main topics of this essay.
