The distinctive features of F.R. Leavis’ prose style
Frank Raymond Leavis (July 14, 1895 – April 14, 1978) was an influential British literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. He taught for much of…
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F.R. Leavis as a literary critic
Frank Raymond Leavis (1895-1978) was an influential British literary critic of 20th-century English Literature. T.S. Eliot influenced him to a great extent. Leavis possessed an…
Romantic Movement and Romantic age in his essay Literature and Society
Or, What are Leavis’ objections Wordsworthian theory of poetry? “Literature and Society is a thought-provoking essay by F.R. Leavis (1895- 1978), one of the influential…
T.S. Eliot about the historical sense
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) writes about “historical sense” in “Tradition and the Individual Talent.” Eliot’s conception of tradition is complex and unusual, involving what he…
Eliot’s objection to Wordsworth’s theory of emotion recollected in tranquility
T.S Eliot (1888-1965) expresses his anti-romantic view of the creative process in “Tradition and the Individual Talent.” He disapproves of the romantic view of poetry…
Practical criticism in Tradition and Individual Talent
Thomas Steams Eliot (1888-1965) has described his criticism as a “by-product” of his “private poetry workshop” and as “a prolongation of the thinking that went…
How vital is the relationship between tradition and individual talent
“Tradition and Individual Talent,” written by T.S. Eliot(1888-1965), is one of the most influential essays of all time. It has placed an essential concept of…
The importance of historical sense by Eliot as a theory of poetry.
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) is one of the most remarkable poets of the Modern Age. He expresses his notion of ‘historical sense’ in his famous essay,”…
Eliot’s impersonal theory of poetry
The theory of impersonality is given by T.S Eliot (1888-1965) in his well-known essay “Tradition and Individual Talent”(1919) . It was first published in the…
The life of Shakespeare’s sister as imagined by Virginia Woolf.
In one section of her essay ‘A Room of One’s Own, Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) invents a fictional character, Judith, Shakespeare’s sister,…