"The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and in working them…
This statement occurs in Part II of T. S. Eliot's essay 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' (1919), where he critiques Wordsworth's 'emotion recollected in tranquillity'.
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"The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and in working them into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all." T.S. Eliot says this in which of his texts ?
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This statement occurs in Part II of T. S. Eliot's essay 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' (1919), where he critiques Wordsworth's 'emotion recollected in tranquillity'.
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