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Tradition and the individual talent is an essay of literary criticism. It analysis the role of tradition and its relationship with innovative products. What makes a poet innovative isn’t what makes him different from his predecessors. The best poet is who shows the presence of his predecessors most vigorously. A poet can not inherit tradition: if he wants to obtain it, he must gain it by great labour. He has also to gross the historical sense, the awareness of how language and literature are codified. The poet that has gained the hist sense should use language so that the reader can perceive and feel the presence of the past in the present and of the present in the past.a writed is considered traditional if he has gained the hist sense. What makes a poet great or innovative that is what makes him able to signify is his relationship with other artists.a poet cannot be evaluated alone. Whenever a new work of art enters the circuit it modifies all the existing relations that were before and will be in the future.