LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Wordsworth’s
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Coleridge’s
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Dr. Johnson’s
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Matthew Arnold’s
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Detailed explanation-1: -Johnson says in “The Preface to Shakespeare” that the end of writing is to instruct and the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing. The truth of poetry is universal truth and it has a universal appeal. It ‘pleases many and pleases long!
Detailed explanation-2: -Johnson has, at more than one place, endeavoured to define criticism. The definition of a critic in his dictionary runs as ‘a man skilled in the art of judging in literature’.
Detailed explanation-3: -Johnson was a moral critic. He never judged literature solely on aesthetic grounds, nor did he value literature for its own sake. Life and literature were inseparable for him. He supported the established custom in letters that held that poetry should provide utility and pleasure.