...present and the past is" that the conscious present is_aa.,awja,reness of the past in a way and to ,aa. extent which the past's awareness of itself cannot...did." Precisely, and they are that which we know. 217 I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my program for the metier of poetry....

...machinery. But the difference between the present and the past is that the conscious present is an a awareness of the past in a way and to an extent *...to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection is that the doctrine requires a ridiculous amount...

...'coming-together') that shall wisely use and not willfully reject the traditions of the past. Upon the assertion, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did,' the only sensible comment is that of TS Eliot: 'Precisely, and they are that which we know.' Perhaps...

...thrusts itself on our attention when he sums up as follows: 'Someone said: "The dead writers are so remote from us because we know so much more than they...did." Precisely, and they are that which we know.' We are forced to put the obvious and damning interpretation on this by the context and the essential...

...he can neither take the past as a lump, an indiscriminate bolus, nor can he form himself wholly one one or two private admirations, nor can he form himself...to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection is that the doctrine requires a ridiculous amount...

...one with routes. RICHARD D. LINGEMAN Pillars of the Church When someone said that dead writers were remote from us because we know so much more than they did, TS Eliot responded, "Precisely, and they are what we know." The three twentieth-century American poets...

...collaborative in the sense adverted to by TS Eliot in 'Tradition and the Individual Talent': Someone said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because...than they did'. Precisely, and they are that which we know.5 That sort of collaboration rarely stops us ascribing works to particular authors (we won't demote...

...in the seventeenth-century "querelle" with the "moderns," an ironic and strangely unnoticed point. "Some one said: The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' 17. Waste Land, 11. 404-6; Ash Wednesday, II; Poems Written in Early Youth (Farrar & Straus, 1970),...

...no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible. — Dorothea Lynde Dix Someone said: "The dead writers are remote from us because...did." Precisely, and they are that which we know. — TS Eliot Historic continuity with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity. — Oliver Wendell...

...that modern poets' knowledge of things is equivalent to their apprehension of past poets: "Someone said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because...did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know" (5 2). That is, any act of knowing necessarily involves knowing the past. In Eliot's discussion of...