A Study of Poetry’ is a critical essay by Matthew Arnold. In this essay Arnold criticizes the art of poetry aswell as the art of criticism. Arnold believes that the art of poetry is capable of high destinies. It is the art inwhich the idea itself is the fact. He says that we should understand … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy gives an explicit account of neo-classical theory of art in general. Dryden is aneoclassic critic, and as such he deals in his criticism with issues of form and morality in drama. However,he is not a rule bound critic, tied down to the classical unities or to notions of what constitutes … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
Wordsworth‘s philosophy of life his theory of poetry, and his political credo were all intricately connected.‗Lyrical Ballads‘ is a joint publication by William Wordsworth and an equally accomplished poet S.T. Coleridge, which is cited as the most prominent reason responsible for the launch of romantic age in EnglishLiterature. In his ‗Preface‘, Wordsworth provides his audience … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
In the Poetics, Aristotle’s famous study of Greek dramatic art, Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) compares tragedy tosuch other metrical forms as comedy and epic. He determines that tragedy, like all poetry, is a kind ofimitation (mimesis), but adds that it has a serious purpose and uses direct action rather than narrative toachieve its ends. He says … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
Deconstruction by its very nature defies institutionalization in an authoritative definition. The concept wasfirst outlined by Derrida in Of Grammatology where he explored the interplay between language and theconstruction of meaning. From this early work, and later works in which he has attempted to explaindeconstruction to others, most notably the Letter to a Japanese Friend, … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
The same period which had produced Plato, one of the great masters of criticism, witnessed the arrival of another outstanding genius in the person of Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), a pupil of the former philosopher, whose work he was to develop on lines of his own thereby bringing to light in connection with art leading principles … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
Biographia Literaria‘ was begun by Coleridge as a literary autobiography but ended up in discussions aboutKant, and Schelling and Coleridge’s perceptive criticism of Wordsworth’s poetry and a comprehensivestatement on creative imagination which constitutes his most signal contribution to literary criticism andtheory. Arthur Symons justly described the work as ‗the greatest book of English criticism’. Coleridge’swhole … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
George Watson writes about Eliot: ―Eliot made English criticism look different, but not in a simple sense.He offered it a new range of rhetorical possibilities, confirmed it in its increasing contempt for historicalprocess, and yet reshaped its notion of period by a handful of brilliant institutions.‖ ―Tradition and theIndividual Talent‖ was originally published across two … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
The most remarkable part of Biographia Literaria lies in Coleridge‘s criticism of Wordsworth‘s theory ofpoetry and poetic Diction. While critically analysing Wordsworth‘s theory Coleridge has offered his ownviews on the choice of rustic, themes and characters as well as the language of poetry. In chapter XVII of Biographia Literaria, Coleridge refers to Wordsworth‘s preface to … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন
New Historicism is a critical approach developed in the 1980s through the works of Michel Foucault andStephen Greenblatt, similar to Marxism. Moving away from text-cantered schools of criticism such as NewCriticism, New Historicism reopened the interpretation of literature to the social, political, and historicalmilieu that produced it. To a New Historicist, literature is not the … বিস্তারিত পড়ুন