Resumen de T. S. Eliot and Salvador Espriu: timeless literature
The poetic works of T. S. Eliot and the Twentieth-century Catalan author Salvador Espriu have a number of things in common, among them their perception of their literary task as a continuation of tradition. They both thought of their work as an addition that must necessarily fit into the whole of Western tradition, with its interconnected classical and Jewish/Christian components. Eliot expresses this idea in "Tradition and the Individual Talent." In his poems and in Espriu's, it takes the form of multiple allusions weaving a literary net that unites human experience, regardless of time and space. Both Eliot's and Espriu's works would therefore be examples of the "encyclopaedic form," as defined by Northrop Frye. They can be considered comparable poets, despite their different cultural backgrounds.
