Today’s meditation on Literature comes from the beginning of the 20th Century, from a poet and essayist that changed the way we think about literature itself. I am, of course, referring to the “master of verse” himself, Thomas Stearns Eliot. In this discussion, I want to revisit his essay on “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” published in 1919.
Category: Literature
King Solomon’s Most Profound Wisdom
King Solomon of ancient Israel composed thousands of proverbs and songs. This excerpt comes from the Jewish Kohelet, what we would call the book of Ecclesiastes. In it he lays out a profound case for Nihilism as potent as anything you will find reading Kierkegaard or Nietzsche.