Classicial criticism & Romanticism

1. Presented by
Mrs.M.Annalakshmi,
Idhaya College For Women,
Kumbakonam.

2. From Classical Age till
New Criticism

7. Plato – Republic, Ion and Phaedrus
Aristotle - Poetics
Horace – Ars Poetica (The Art of Poetry)
Longinus – On the Sublime
Plotinus – Enneads (Neoplatonism)
Dante – The Divine Comedy

8. Phillips Sidney – An Apology for
Poetry
Samuel Daniel – “Defence of
Rhyme

9. John Dryden - Essay of Dramatic Poesie
(1668)
Alexander Pope - An Essay on Criticism
Dr.Samuel Johnson – Preface to
Shakespeare

10. David Hume – Enquiries and
Treatises
Immanuel Kant – Critique of
Judgement

11. William Wordsworth – Preface to
the Lyrical Ballads
S.T.Coleridge – Biographia Literaria
P.B. Shelley – A Defence of Poetry

12. Mathew Arnold – The Function of
Criticism, The Study of Poetry
Henry James – The Art of Fiction
Walter Pater – Style

13. A.C.Bradley – Poetry for Poetry’s Sake
T.S.Eliot - Traditional and Individual
Talent, The Metaphysical Poets

14. I.A.Richards – Poetry for Poetry’s Sake
F.R.Leavis – The Great Tradition
William Empson – Seven Types of Ambiguity
Allen Tate – Ode to the Confederate Dead
Lionel Trilling - The Liberal Imagination, Beyond
Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning

15. Name –Plato
Age–4th Century BC
School–Classical Criticism
Works & Date–Republic (387 – 347 BCE)
Hypothetical Utopian State
Terms
& Definitions–Idealist Philosophy, Mimesis Art is an
imitation of life –“Art is twice removed from Reality”

16. CLASSICAL CRITICISM

39. ASSIGNMENT-2
I. SHORT ANSWERS(10 MARKS)
1.How does Plato divide art?
2.What is criticism?
3.How does Plato divide Poetry?
4.Bring out Aristotle’s views on characterization?
5.Who is a critic?
II.ESSAY WRITING(20 MARKS)
1.Bring out Plato’s views.
2.Explain six elements