LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Carlyle
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Ruskin
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T. S. Eliot
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F. R. Leavis
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Detailed explanation-1: -T. S. Eliot said that Arnold is a ‘Propagandist and not a creator of ideas’.
Detailed explanation-2: -According to T.S. Eliot, Arnold was a propagandist and ot a critic due to his style of criticism.
Detailed explanation-3: -Accordingly, Arnold’s concept contrasts Eliot’s impersonal theory of poetry according to which the poet’s feelings and emotion are neglected. Eliot emphasizes the importance of the artistic process itself and regards the poet’s mind as a medium which works in a passive, subconscious manner.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the first essay of the collection, “The Perfect Critic, ” Eliot claims that “[Matthew] Arnold-it will be conceded-was rather a propagandist for criticism than a critic, a popularizer rather than a creator of ideas” (1).
Detailed explanation-5: -In the Function of Criticism, Arnold states that criticism should be a dissemination of ideas, a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the Page 7 world.