Abstract
T. S. Eliot's idea of tradition is very complicated. According to T. S. Eliot, tradition involves the historical sense, which is a sense of the timeless as well as of the temporal and of the timeless and of the temporal both together. Eliot writes that poetry is an escape from emotion, but what he really means is that poetry is not the expression of personal emotion, but of impersonal one. It is said that the poets who have left the deepest and most lasting mark on his poetry are Dante, the seventeenth-century English metaphysicals and the French symbolists, especially Baudelaire, which explains what is the tradition of European poetry.
