ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

AGES ERA PERIOD

THE RENAISSANCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The 20th century has been less kind to his memory. TS Eliot found his imagery distracting, and considered his work “not serious poetry”, but it was another critic who accused him of “callousness to the intrinsic nature of English”. Who?
A
FR Leavis
B
Harold Bloom
C
William Empson
D
Mariella Frostrup
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -T.S. Eliot exercised a strong influence on Anglo-American culture from the 1920s until late in the century. His experiments in diction, style, and versification revitalized English poetry, and in a series of critical essays he shattered old orthodoxies and erected new ones.

Detailed explanation-2: -Eliot regarded Four Quartets as his masterpiece, and it is the work that most of all led him to being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. It consists of four long poems, each first published separately: “Burnt Norton” (1936), “East Coker” (1940), “The Dry Salvages” (1941) and “Little Gidding” (1942).

Detailed explanation-3: -Eliot was a great Critic In the 20th Century the also a great Poet A great dramas tic and a great Critic. He wrote many Poem, Drama and Critical essay. His famous essay Tradition and individual Talent and the function of Criticism. He define the Critic very perfectly.

Detailed explanation-4: -a morality play. [The morality play, in which personified virtues and vices struggle for man’s soul, was popular in the fifteenth century.]

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