45:00 I can feel the dignity as though Priam were in front of me largely due to the pathos which you have clearly felt and feel. Thank you for exhibiting the living tradition. Fantastic stuff.

I really love how the professor is so indifferent to what he has to say yet, he makes all of it so detailed and deep..

I just looked this dude up. He teaches at Tyndale, my old Seminary. Good stuff.

Wonderful piece of literary criticism. So very refreshing and timely Y

Thank you very much Sir for your valuable insights!

I am watching this lecture for a third time now and it's really wonderful. Thank you Professor! Could you suggest some tips as to writing analysis answers in the exam?

Thank you so much sir 💕

How engaging and insightful. Thank you for this.

Thank you for your explanations

i found this very insightful, thank you.

Thank you sir for the explanation!

It is true, Eliot is really very obscure;and comprehending his poetry as well as criticism entails a great amount of effort. I recently read "After Strange Gods" and was a little confused about what he means by heresy and orthodoxy. Could you kindly explain? It would be great if you could do a lecture on this essay as well, because it is a companion piece to "Tradition and Individual Talent ."

Look, I smoke my weight in weed all day. I drink gallons of beer. I can STILL understand the Waste Land. I may have read it 100+ times, but I understand it. Its an amazing piece of work.

Can you please make a lecture on Mathew Arnold's the function of criticism at present times???

Sir, as you said that sometimes authors tend to make a text difficult intentionally just to target a particular group of audience it reminded me of "The American Scholar" by Ralph Waldo Emerson; I struggled a lot with that text. Even though it was a speech still it was so hard probably this was the reason behind it being so difficult.

It's become clearer that CS Lewis did become much friendlier in later years. This was due to common membership on various Anglican committees. It seems Eliot ignored the early heated criticisms of his modernism in poetry, and charmed Lewis, and they socialized together with their wives. Eliot went on to publish, at Faber&Faber, Lewis' A Grief Ovserved, and protected his anonymity, by not revealing the authorship of CSL.

i found it impossibly hard to read and never saw the use of semicolons more in my life hahah! thank you for your insight.

thanks

very very very informative

Could you please do a lecture on literary terms and history on English literature? 💕

1:07:50 - The hermeneutics of beauty vs the hermeneutics of suspicion?

Dr. Masson, thank you for this excellent essay. However, wouldn't someone like Wordsworth be a better comparison to make to Eliot's view? Such as with the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads? I just think it would aid your argument to have a stronger argument to compare Eliot's position to. Especially as Wordsworth argues to populist poetry, while at the same time, being sophisticated.

I gave Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent" a read and man was it complicated, thank you so much for this cogent analysis. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like tradition is akin to the ever-relevant Platonic forms of truth and beauty which can manifest facially different in a particular, crafted to the relevant specifics in a given time period, but relevant nonetheless because the fragments of the particulars each participate in the forms. Also, could you expound upon your point about Eliot preaching to a narrowed group? Do you say that because he frames his theory as a criticism of poetry?

my question is that what are postcolonial elements in T.S. Eliot essay tradition and individual talent

Fine lecture. However, Dreher's book is titled The Benedict Option.

Ummm, "art for art's sake," while Wilde may have referenced it, is a quotation of -Horace-.

What's your opinion on his Wasteland?

Can i ask about your opinion about Eliot's definition of poetry ??

Huh, I never considered Englit studies weren't about as old as Englit

can you arrange a lecture on it please sir

hello sir how are you

Lots of beating around the bush😑

Ho

Thank you so much sir 💕

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