Introduction to Literary Criticism Broad Question Suggestion EDNOUB

Introduction to Literary Criticism

[Broad Question]

Aristotle

1.      What are Aristotle’s views on the three unities?

2.    What are Aristotle’s arguments in favour of tragedy over epic poetry? Do you think they are convincing?

3.    What is Aristotle’s view about an ideal tragic hero?

Sir Philip Sydney

1.      How does Sydney establish the superiority of the poet over philosophers and historians?

2.    On what grounds does Sydney object to contemporary English drama?

3.    Critically examine Sydney’s views on the antiquity and universality of Poetry.

Samuel Johnson

1.      Comment on Johnson’s evaluation of Shakespeare’s tragedies.

2.    What, according to Johnson, are the faults of Shakespeare?

3.    How does Johnson defend Shakespeare against the charge for the violation of the unities of time and place?

William Wordsworth

1.      Why is Wordsworth’s ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’ considered the manifesto to the Romantic Movement?

2.    How does Wordsworth appear as a poet of the common man in his ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’?

3.    What, according to Wordsworth, are the characteristics and functions of a poet?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1.      Discuss critically Coleridge’s concept of fancy and imagination.

2.    Elucidate Coleridge’s theory of poetry.

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SHUVASHISH MALLICK

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