LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
William Tyndale
|
|
|
Roger Ascham
|
|
|
Stephen Gosson
|
|
|
Henry Howard
|
Detailed explanation-1: -An Elizabethan Puritan critic denounced the poets as ‘fathers of lies’, ’schools of abuse’ and’caterpillars of a commonwealth’.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gosson attacks on poetry saying that it corrupts the people and it is the waste of time, but Sidney says that no learning is so good as that which teaches and moves to virtue and that nothing can both teach and amuse so much as poetry does. In essay societies, poetry was the main source of education.
Detailed explanation-3: -In his day, a critic named Stephen Gosson attacked poetry in his The Schoole of Abuse. He denounced poetry on the following grounds: (i) He classed poets with pipers, jesters, and called them caterpillars of the commonwealth – all alike enemies of virtue.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer. Quote by Jean Cocteau: “The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”