Download or read book T S Eliot s Response to Matthew Arnold in His Early Essays written by Marion Meerpohl and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,0, University of Münster (Englisches Seminar), course: T.S. Eliot, Critical Essays, language: English, abstract: In the course of history, literature as well as literary theory and critique experienced various changes due to social circumstances. Their function in certain periods and epochs differed vastly. Without any doubt, the Victorian critic and poet, Matthew Arnold, represents a significant predecessor of Thomas Stearns Eliot and is fundamentally important for the understanding of his literary theory and criticism. The modern literary critic of the 20th century, T. S. Eliot, is therefore more closely associated with the theories of the Victorian artist than any other literary critic or poet. However, their relation is not easy to define and bares not only immense analogies but also many divergences and contradictions. The present work represents an analysis of T. S. Eliot's reaction towards Matthew Arnold in his early essays. Therefore, it also traces the transition of literary theory and criticism from the 19th to the 20th century. Their attitudes towards literary the-ory and poetry will be exposed as well as their concept of literary criticism and its functions. Besides, their notion of historical circumstances and their perception of morality in literature are crucial aspects worth a detailed observation. For this purpose, Eliot's comments on Matthew Arnold in his early essays serve as a basis for the illustration and form the central source. Therefore, "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1919), "Hamlet" (1919), "The Perfect Critic" (1920), "The Function of Criticism" (1923), "Matthew Arnold" (1933), and "Arnold and Pater" (1930) constitute the main works of reference. Further works by various authors provide supplementary opinions on the subject and subsequently offer more postures when it comes to forming a judgement on the complex relation between the
Download or read book Literary Criticism of Matthew Arnold written by Flemming Olsen and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the ideas that appear in Arnold's Preface of 1853 to his collection of poems and in his later essays are suggested in the letters that Arnold wrote to his friend Arthur Hugh Clough. Analysis of the Preface reveals a poet who found a theoretical basis for poetry (by which he means literature in general) in the dramas of the Greek tragedians, particularly Sophocles: action is stressed as an indispensable ingredient, wholes are preferred to parts, the didactic function of literature is promoted -- in short, the Preface reads like the recipe for a classical tragedy. It is a young poet's attempt to establish criteria for what poetry ought to be. He found the Romantic idiom outworn. Literature was, in Arnold's perception, meant to communicate a message rather than impress by its structure or by formal sophistication. Modern theories of coalescence between content and form were outside the contemporary paradigm. T S Eliot's ambivalent attitude to Arnold -- now reluctantly admiring, now decidedly patronizing -- is puzzling. Eliot never seemed able to liberate himself from the influence of Arnold. What in Arnold's critical oeuvre attracted and at the same time repelled Eliot? That question has led to an in-depth analysis of Arnold as a literary critic. This book begins with an examination of Arnold's letters to Clough, where "it all started" and proceeds with a close reading of the 1853 Preface. A look at some of the later literary essays rounds off the picture of Arnold as a literary critic. This work is the result of Reader and Review comments of the author's well received Eliot's Objective Criticism: Tradition or Individual Talent? "Yet he is in some respects the most satisfactory man of letters of his age." -- T S Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.
Download or read book George Eliot Matthew Arnold Browning Newman written by Joseph Jacobs and published by London D. Nutt 1891.. This book was released on 1891 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Function of Criticism at the Present Time written by Matthew Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critical Companion to T S Eliot written by Russell Murphy and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for his works "The Waste Land", "Four Quartets", and "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock," T S Eliot is one of the most popular 20th-century poets studied in high school and college English classes. This work explores the life and works of this amazing Nobel Prize-winning writer, with analyses of Eliot's writing.
Download or read book Matthew Arnold written by Carl Dawson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.
Download or read book Essays by Matthew Arnold written by Matthew Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Matthew Arnold Prose writings written by Carl Dawson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Eliot s Objective Correlative written by Flemming Olsen and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T.S. Eliot's dictum about the objective correlative has often been quoted, but rarely analyzed. This book traces the maxim to some of its sources and places it in a contemporary context. Eliot agreed with Locke about the necessity of sensory input, but for a poet to be able to create poetry, the input has to be processed by the poet's intellect. Respect for control of feelings and order of presentation were central to Eliot's conception of literary criticism. The result - the objective correlative - is not one word, but "a scene" or "a chain of events." Eliot's thinking was also inspired by late 19th-century French critics, like Gautier and Gourmont, whose terminology he not infrequently borrowed. But he chose the term "objective" out of respect for the prestige that still surrounded the Positivist paradigm. In its break-away from Positivist dogmas, criticism of art in the early 20th century was very much preoccupied with form. In poetry, that meant focus on the use and function of the word. That focus is perceptible everywhere in Eliot's criticism. Even though the idea of the objective correlative was not an original one, Eliot's treatment of it is interesting because he sees a seeming truism ("the right word in the right place") in a new light. He never developed the theory, but the thought is traceable in several of his critical essays. On account of its categorical and rudimentary form, the theory is not unproblematic: whose fault is it if the reader's response does not square with the poet's intention? And indeed, T.S. Eliot's own practice belies his theory - witness the multifarious legitimate interpretations of his poems.
Download or read book The Sacred Wood written by Thomas Stearns Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dynamics of Criticism in T S Eliot written by Mohammad Hanief and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2000 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Is The Most Authentic One Ever Written On The Subject. Apart From Its Wide-Ranging And Usually Inaccessible Materials, It Has Been Written In Such A Lively And Fluent Style That It Ravishes Both The Uninitiated And The Expert, The Common Reader And The Scholar. Besides, Having Functional Utility For Examinations, Interviews And Competitions, And Elite Occasions, It Is A Source Of Critical Strength And Ideas For Any Reader Of Taste And Interest Irrespective Of His Particular Language, Literature And Department. Mohammad Hanif Has Made A Diligent Collection Of Material From And About T.S. Eliot S Critical Writings And Has Arranged It Straightforwardly In Eight Chapters, On The Sources Of Eliot S Ideas, On His Views About Poetry, Criticism, Drama And The Novel And His Style Is Lively, Clear And Forceful On The Whole ----.----- He Roused By Attention By Some First-Hand Observation On A Point Of Detail (For Instance, Eliot And Benda, On Eliot S Possible Debt To Pater And On Eliot S Humour). The Inclusion Of Chapter 6 On Eliot S Criticism Of The Nover Is Welcome And Mr. Hanif Does Show That Eliot Ranged Widely In This Department Of Literature ------------.
Download or read book Poetry and Morality written by Vincent Buckley and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Matthew Arnold and the Romantics written by Leon Gottfried and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1963. Matthew Arnold grew up under the personal as well as literary influence of Wordsworth, when Keats, Shelley, and Byron were dominant poetic forces and Coleridge a seminal thinker on social and religious problems. However, the great Romantics were not always positive influences. This study attempts to provide an examination of Arnold by exploring and evaluating the full range of Arnold’s reactions to the major Romantic poets over his whole career. This title will be of interest to students of literature.
Download or read book Matthew Arnold written by Douglas Bush and published by Springer. This book was released on 1971-06-18 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Postmodernism Disciplinary texts humanities and social sciences written by Victor E. Taylor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V.1 Foundational essays -- V.2 Critical Texts -- V.3 Disciplinary texts: Humanities and social sciences -- V.4 Legal studies, psychoanalytic studies, visual arts and architecture.
Download or read book Reader Response Criticism written by Jane P. Tompkins and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1980-12 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism" collects the most important theoretical statements on readers and the reading process. Its essays trace the development of reader-response criticism from its beginnings in New Criticism through its appearance in structuralism, stylistics, phenomenology, psychoanalytic criticism, and post-structuralist theory. The editor shows how each of these essays treats the problem of determinate meaning and compares their unspoken moral assumptions. In a concluding essay, she redefines the reader-response movement by placing it in historical perspective, providing the first short history of the concept of literary response. This anthology remains an indispensable guide to reader-response criticism. -- From publisher's description.
Download or read book POETRY AND CRITICISM OF MATTHEW ARNOLD written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
