 | Charles Frederick Kenyon, Gerald Cumberland - 1923 - 316 pages
...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... | |
 | 1921 - 286 pages
...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.... | |
 | 1926 - 746 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1928 - 206 pages
...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.... | |
 | William Thomson Hastings - 1928 - 454 pages
...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.... | |
 | Joseph Kelly - 2010 - 318 pages
...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... | |
 | Jack Spicer - 1998 - 300 pages
...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,... | |
 | Charles Hersch - 1998 - 248 pages
...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... | |
 | Vassiliki Kolocotroni - 1998 - 658 pages
...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.... | |
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What 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. 
