Poetry & Communion (Daymakers S02Ep7)

The Daymakers wrap up their discussion of T. S. Eliot’s famous essay, “Tradition and the Individual Talent.” If it’s impossible to extricate one’s personality from one’s art, and if it isn’t even desirable, then how can we understand what Eliot might mean when he tells us that the work of great poets is an escape from personality? Is it that in attempting to escape one’s personality, one discovers communion—whether social or cosmic? This is a short one, but it packs a punch, and hopefully makes your day!