ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -A touchstone can be a short passage from recognized masters’ works used in assessing the relative merit of poetry and literature. This sense of the term was coined by Matthew Arnold in his essay “The Study of Poetry", where he gives Hamlet’s dying words to Horatio as an example of a touchstone.

Detailed explanation-2: -Matthew Arnold tries a lot to invent an ideal standard of ideal literary works in “ The Study of Poetry “. He invents a process by which the real worth or value of literary work can be judged. This process of judging a piece is called touchstone method.

Detailed explanation-3: -Matthew Arnold. tries a lot to invent an ideal standard of ideal literary. works in The Study of Poetry. He invents a process by which the real worth or value of literary work can be judged. This process of judging a piece is called touchstone method.

Detailed explanation-4: -touchstone, black siliceous stone used to ascertain the purity of gold and silver. Assaying by “touch” was one of the earliest methods employed to assess the quality of precious metals. The metal to be assayed is rubbed on the touchstone, adjacent to the rubbing on the touchstone of a sample of a metal of known purity.