Presentation about "COLERIDGE AS CRITIC"

2. TOPIC: CPLERIDGEAS A CRITIC
PREPARED AND PRESENTED BY : KINNARI
HALVADIYA
PAPER NO. 3 : LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
MA SEM : 1
ROLL NO. 16
ENROLLMENT NO. : 2069108420200014
BATCH : 2019 – 2021
EMAIL ID : kinuhalvadiya17@gmail.com
SUBMITED TO : S.B .GARDI
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH , MKBU

3.  One of the greatest poet –
critics that england has
ever produced.
 He was genius, he could
create works of the
highest order.
 He was incapable of
sustained and persistent
labour.

4. 1} BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA
AND
2} LECTURES ON
SHAKESPEARE AND OTHER
POETSIMAGINATION
THEWHOLE
SOULOF MAN
SECONDARY
IMAGINATION

5. COLERIDGE’
S CRITICISM
THEMS OF
POETRY
RUSTIC
LANGUAGE
POETIC
DICTION

6.  Coleridge , reports that, “EVERY MAN’S LANGUAGE”, Varies according to
the extent of his knowledge , the activity of his faculties and the depth or
quickness of his feelings. “EVERY MAN’S LANGUAGE HAS , FIRST ITS
INDIVIDUAL PECULIARITIES”
 Secondly, the properties common to the class to which he belongs , and thirdly
, words and phrases of universal use.
 “NO TWO MEN OF THE SAME CLASS OR OF DIFFERENT CLASSES
SPEAK ALIKE, ALTHOUGH BOTH USE WORDS AND PHRASES
CPMMON TO THEM ALL , BECAUSE IN THE ONE CASE THEIR
NATURES ARE DIFFERENT , AND IN THE OTHER THEIR CLASSES
ARE DIFFERENT.”
 Applies as much to the language of rustic to that of townsmen in both cases.
 The language varies from PERSON TO PERSON, CLASS TO CLASS, AND
PLACE TO PLACE.

7.  First communication with an object implies reflection on it , and the
richness of vocabulary arises from such reflection , now the rural
condition of life do not require any reflection , hence the vocabulary of
the rustics is poor. They can express only the barest facts of nature , and
not the ideas and thoughts – universal laws – which result from reflection
on such facts.
 Secondly , the best part of man’s language does not result merely from
communication with nature , but from education , from the mind’s
dwelling on noble thoughts and ideals of the master minds o humanity .
 Whatever noble and poetic phrases , words and arrangement of words ,
the rustics use , are derived not from nature , but from repeated listening
to The Bible and to the sermons of noble and inspired preachers.

8. TWO
TYPES OF
POETRY….
NATURAL
POETRY
SUPERNATUR
AL
POETRY
 Y
“Supernatural events are mixed with natural elements.
Poem is called masterpiece because of the combination of
both. A wide world of Supernatural ism has been painted
but it always takes Nature with it. Every detail given by the
poet is realistic and sensible”.

9. FINAL DEFINATION…
“A POEM IS THAT SPECIES OF
COMPOSITION WHICH IS OPPOSED TO
WORK OF SCIENCE BY PROPOSING FOR
ITS IMMEDIATE OBJECT PLEASURE
NOT TRUTH, AND FROM ALL OTHER
SPECIES. IT IS DISCRIMINATED BY
PROPOSING TO IT SELF SUCH
DELIGHT FROM THE WHOLE, AS IS
COMPATIBLE WITH A DISTINCT
GRATIFICATION FROM EACH
COMPONENT PART.”

10. THEREFORE
“ A POEM OF ANY LENGTH NEITHER
CAN BE NOR OUGHT TO BE, ALL
POETRY SIZE DOES NOT DECIED
THEQUALITY. IT DOESN’T DETERMINE
PROSE OR POEM TOO”
IN THE LONG POEM ALL THE PARTS CANNOT BE
EQUALLY GRATIFYING.

11. To conclude , in his own words,
He endeavored ‘to establish the principle of writing rather
than to furnish rules about how to pass judgment on, what
had been written by others.’
Thus, coleridge is the first English critic who based his
literary criticism on philosophical principle.
Coleridge busied himself with the basic question of, “ how
it came to be there at all .” he was more interested in
creative process that made it , what it was , then in the
finished product.
CONCLUSION :