“The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an 'objective correlative'.”

Introducing Eliot's influential idea that emotion in art requires an adequate external form · Essay, Hamlet

• Art
• Poetry

“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists.”

Placing every artist within an inherited and continuing tradition · Essay, Tradition and the Individual Talent

• Art
• Memory
• Poetry

“What happens when a new work of art is created is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art which preceded it.”

Arguing that genuinely new art changes how earlier art is perceived · Essay, Tradition and the Individual Talent

• Art
• Memory
• Time