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‘[The poet’s] concern is to explore the unknown in such a way as to create a pattern of words which shall convey his perception so forcefully to a reader that the reader himself shares both the exploration and the discovery as if they were his own. He is concerned only with the creation of that pattern: everything else is incidental.

In his Inspiration, and in his various technical manoeuvres, the poet discards his own identity.

As T.S. Eliot says, “The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.”’*

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Ibid, 33

{cf VI:[[Redbook6:41-51)][19881128:2046]{Literary Circles}[28th November 1988],] 40A**-44}

**[In ts at [Redbook6:36A(/40A)][19881122:0000]{T.S Eliot and Anti-Semitism}[22nd November 1988]]

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