Record Number: 20844
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
' "Impressions and experiences which are important for the man may take no place in the poetry, and those which become important in the poetry may play quite a negligible part in the man, the personality." This [T. S. Eliot, Sacred Wood, p52] seems sound, but "emotions which he has never experienced will serve his turn as well as those familiar to him" is surely nonsense. He recovers in "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But of course only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from those things."'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1929 and 31 Dec 1929
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:1 Jan 1879
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
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Country of Origin:England
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:'Tradition and the Individual Talent'
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsIn The Sacred Wood (1920) 50-1; 52; 53.
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Source Information:
Record ID:20844
Source:E. M. Forster
Editor:Philip Gardner
Title:Commonplace Book
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1985
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Page:53
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
E. M. Forster, Philip Gardner (ed.), Commonplace Book (London, 1985), p. 53, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=20844, accessed: 21 March 2023
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