"The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality"
T. S. Eliot, in "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
Hejinian notes the "famous pronouncement" at the end of the essay:
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality"
[would be interesting to discuss when we discuss subjectivity in the poem]
Eliot here "announces the poem [...] as the pertinent effective vehicle, not the poet"
However, Hejinian also notes that "By giving ontological autonomy to a cultural product [...] Eliot denies its embeddedness in social structures, its complicity with reigining ideology--something a Marxist would never do"