Originality
In Our Time
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The Paradox of Romantic Poetry
Hagol defined himself as an anti-romantic, which is kind of curious because you might think of him as a romantic philosopher in the sense that he has very grand visions about how everything fits together into a single whole. Hagor's dislike of the notion of romantic originality was that it made it sound as though human creativity was unhistorical. And his idea was that at the very moment when artists of his own generation and earlier generation had imagined that they were inventing stuff, from nothing, at that moment they were proving themselves really to be the children of tradition. We are all creatures of tradition.
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