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The encounter of a work of art with the genre it is conceived in is a dramatic moment. When in the history of literature we claim that a particular work is composed in a certain genre, we imply that the genre has existed before the composition of the work in question. Nevertheless, the genre lives in and through individual works of art, obtaining its characteristics from the common elements of a certain group of works.
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T. S. Eliot, ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’, Selected Essays ( London: Faber & Faber, 1963 ) 15.
G. Lukacs, Az esztétikum sajdtossdga I (The Specificity of the Aesthetic Quality, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiad6, 1965) 572, 578. My translation from Hungarian.
T. S. Eliot, ‘Reflections on Vers Libre’, To Criticize the Critic ( London: Faber & Faber, 1965 ) 185.
T. S. Eliot, ‘Milton II’ (1947), On Poetry and Poets ( London: Faber & Faber, 1965 ) 158.
James Joyce’s parody of The Waste Land. Quoted in Richard Ellmann, James Joyce ( New York: Oxford University Press, 1959 ) 583.
G. Lukács, The Historical Novel, trans. Hannah and Stanley Mitchell (London: Merlin Press, 1962 ) 185.
T. S. Eliot, Selected Prose, ed. John Hayward (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1963) 30–31; To Criticize the Critic, 15.
T. S. Eliot, ‘Yeats’ (1940), On Poetry and Poets, 255, 256; ’The Music of Poetry’ (1942), On Poetry and Poets, 35, 36, 38; ’From Poe to Valéry’ (1948), To Criticize the Critic, 38, 41, 42.
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Egri, P. (1990). Reflections on T. S. Eliot’s Vers Libre. In: Bagchee, S. (eds) T. S. Eliot: A Voice Descanting. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10104-7_9
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