LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Question
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Arnold’s views on poetry and criticism are discussed in ____?
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Preface to the Poems
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On translating Homer
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“Scholar Gypsy”
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Culture and Anarchy
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Culture and Anarchy, major work of criticism by Matthew Arnold, published in 1869. In it Arnold contrasts culture, which he defines as “the study of perfection, ” with anarchy, the prevalent mood of England’s then new democracy, which lacks standards and a sense of direction.
Detailed explanation-2: -Culture combines this commitment to “the moral and social passion for doing good” with the ideal of scientific objectivity, “the sheer desire to see things as they are” (91). Rather than a means to differentiate the elite from the mass, Arnoldian culture assumes the elite and the mass have a shared humanity.
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