Abstract
This article intends to revisit the concept of tradition in T. S. Eliot in the light of the author’s early philosophical writings, many of which were published for the first time in 2014. For this purpose, the text is divided into three fundamental parts, investigating the philosophical writings of Eliot, his doctoral thesis, and his essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent”, the latter in the light of his initial production. In general, the purpose is to show that, for Eliot, tradition constitutes an organic and provisional body of works, capable of repeatedly denying and reconstituting itself.
Keywords
Eliot; tradition; modernism; negativity