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| Author | T. S. Eliot |
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| Genre | Literary criticism |
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Publication date | 1920 |
The Sacred Wood is a collection of 20 essays by T. S. Eliot, first published in 1920. Topics include Eliot's opinions of many literary works and authors, including William Shakespeare's play Hamlet , and the poets Dante Alighieri and William Blake. [1]
One of his most important prose works, "Tradition and the Individual Talent", which was originally published in two parts in The Egoist , is a part of The Sacred Wood. The book also contains the essay "Hamlet and His Problems", in which Eliot first put forward his idea of the objective correlative. [2]
The essay "Philip Massinger" contains the famous line (often misquoted) "Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal". [3]
