Commentators have long been aware of the striking parallels between T. S. Eliot's essay ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’, his seminal theoretical statement, and ‘Modern Tendencies in Poetry’, one of the more substantial of his uncollected pieces of the same period. Until now, however, the relationship between these two documents has not been properly understood. In fact ‘Modern Tendencies in Poetry’ constitutes a revision of the first part of its more widely disseminated companion piece, one that modifies and re-purposes its author's most famous theoretical provocations in a number of important ways. Intriguing in and of itself, this act of revision acquires added significance in the context of passages in Eliot's correspondence from late 1919 relating to The Art of Poetry, a treatise on the degeneracy of contemporary verse that he planned to write for publication by the Egoist Press in the spring of 1920.
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机译：评论家们早就意识到艾略特（T. S. Eliot）的论文“传统与个人才能”，他的开创性理论陈述与“诗歌现代倾向”之间的惊人相似之处，这是他同期未收藏的更重要的作品之一。但是，到目前为止，尚未正确理解这两个文档之间的关系。实际上，“诗歌的现代倾向”构成了其广泛传播的同伴作品的第一部分的修订版，该作品以多种重要方式修改并重新利用了作者最著名的理论挑衅。有趣的是，这种修改行为在1919年末与艾略特（Eliot）关于诗歌艺术的书信中的段落中获得了更多的意义，这是他计划由利己主义出版社撰写的关于当代诗的堕落的论文。在1920年春天。
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