Category Criticism

Criticism doesn’t mean to find out the faults of something. Rather defining the merits and demerits of the meritorious work is criticism. The person who judge the work is called critic.

What are the functions of poetry

Question: What are the functions of poetry? Introduction Every branch of knowledge has function to be done for the betterment of human beings. As the…

How does Wordsworth justify metre in poetry

Question: How does Wordsworth justify metre in poetry? Introduction William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) is an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, assisted…

The Critical assessment of Arnold of the poetry written in the 17th and 18th centuries in England

The Critical assessment of Arnold of the poetry written in the 17th and 18th centuries in England Question: Critically analyze Arnold’s assessment of the poetry…

What are the faults of Shakespeare

Question: What are the faults of Shakespeare? Introduction Doctor Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) is one of the well-known literary figures in the history of English literature. …

What are the merits of Shakespeare

Question: What are the merits of Shakespeare? Introduction Johnson’s “Preface to Shakespeare” is a critical assessment of Shakespeare’s dramatic art in which the merits of…

What does Aristotle say about the unities of poetry

Question: What does Aristotle say about the unities of poetry? Introduction Poetic unities are the principles of poetic structure relating to action, time, and place.…

Coleridges objection to Wordsworth

Question: What is Coleridges objection to Wordsworth’s selection of characters in his poems? Introduction In chapter seventeenth of the essay “Biographia Literaria”, Coleridge gives a…

How does Eagleton evaluate the Romantics

Question: How does Eagleton evaluate the Romantics? Discuss. Introduction Terry Eagleton (1943- ) in his “The Rise of English” represents that the modern sense of…

Eagleton links the rise of English to the crisis in modern civilization

Question: Discuss how Eagleton links the rise of English to the crisis in modern civilization. Introduction Terry Eagleton is a British literary theorist, critic, and…

Background of writing Culture and Imperialism

Question: What do you know about the background of writing Culture and Imperialism and its contents? Discuss with reference to the “Introduction”. Or, discuss the…