"Alexander ... could place a shift of seam or change of cut in relation to tradition and the individual talent almost as well as he could a verse-form or a vocabulary."
"Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919) is an essay by poet and literary theorist T. S. Eliot. http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw4.html
While Eliot is most often known for his poetry, he also contributed to the field of literary theory. In this dual role, he acted as poet-critic, comparable to Sir Philip Sidney and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "Tradition and the Individual Talent" formulates Eliot’s influential conception of the relationship between the poet and the literary tradition which precedes him.
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