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1. Literary Criticism II
ENG- 332
Lecture No: 07
“Mathew Arnold’s Study of Poetry”
Course: Literary Criticism II- ENG- 332 – Instructor: Siraj Khan, Lecturer in English, Department of English KUST- Email: siraj.khan@kust.edu.pk
By: Siraj Khan
Lecturer in English
KUST
2. Outlines
Poet’s Biography
The Study of Poetry
His Theory of Poetry
Touchstone Theory
High Seriousness
The Three Estimates
His Views On Poets
Criticism On Arnolds Views
Topic: Mathew Arnold’s Study of Poetry
Course: Literary Criticism II ENG- 332 – Instructor: Siraj Khan, Lecturer in English, Department of English KUST- Email: siraj.khan@kust.edu.pk
3. Mathew Arnold
(December 24, 1822 – April15, 1888 )
English Victorian Poet
Winner of Newdigate Prize
His first Volume was The Strayed Reveller
Literary and Social Critic
Dover Beach/ Rustam and Suhrab
Influenced by Thomas Arnold. Age, Classicals
Topic: Mathew Arnold’s Study of Poetry
Course: Literary Criticism II ENG- 332 – Instructor: Siraj Khan, Lecturer in English, Department of English KUST- Email: siraj.khan@kust.edu.pk
4. The Study of Poetry
Topic: Mathew Arnold’s Study of Poetry
Course: Literary Criticism II ENG- 332 – Instructor: Siraj Khan, Lecturer in English, Department of English KUST- Email: siraj.khan@kust.edu.pk
•Poetry is Criticism of Life
•The Future of Poetry is immense
•Without Poetry, Science is Incomplete
•Readers should insist on real estimate
•Shakespeare & Milton, Dryden & Pope
•Thomas Gray
•Genuine and Artificial Poetry
•Scottish Poems Like Burns
•High Seriousness
5. Theory of Poetry
Greek Art and, Culture and Literature
Suitable Action
Subject of Poetry
Manner and Style
Ancients are safe models or guides
The Grand Style
Topic: Mathew Arnold’s Study of Poetry
Course: Literary Criticism II ENG- 332 – Instructor: Siraj Khan, Lecturer in English, Department of English KUST- Email: siraj.khan@kust.edu.pk
6. Mathew Arnold’s Views on Criticism
Importance of Critic & Criticism
Personal and Historical Judgement
Touchstone Method
Topic: Mathew Arnold’s Study of Poetry
Course: Literary Criticism II ENG- 332 – Instructor: Siraj Khan, Lecturer in English, Department of English KUST- Email: siraj.khan@kust.edu.pk
7. High Seriousness
High Seriousness
Truth and Serious
Geoffery Chaucer
Beauty and Valor
Feeling and Sincerity
Topic: Mathew Arnold’s Study of Poetry
Course: Literary Criticism II ENG- 332 – Instructor: Siraj Khan, Lecturer in English, Department of English KUST- Email: siraj.khan@kust.edu.pk
8. Comparison of Poetry with other Sciences
Standard Comparison
Truth and Serious
Course: Literary Criticism II ENG- 332 – Instructor: Siraj Khan, Lecturer in English, Department of English KUST- Email: siraj.khan@kust.edu.pk
Topic: Mathew Arnold’s Study of Poetry
Touchstone Theory
9. Three Estimates
Topic: Mathew Arnold’s Study of Poetry
Course: Literary Criticism II ENG- 332 – Instructor: Siraj Khan, Lecturer in English, Department of English KUST- Email: siraj.khan@kust.edu.pk
Historical Estimate Personal Estimate
Real Estimate
10. Praised his Excellent Style
He is not Classic
Lack of High Seriousness
Unlike Homer, Virgil and Shakespeare
Topic: Mathew Arnold’s Study of Poetry
Course: Literary Criticism II ENG- 332 – Instructor: Siraj Khan, Lecturer in English, Department of English KUST- Email: siraj.khan@kust.edu.pk
His Views on Chaucer
11. Views on Dryden and Pope
Dryden the Glorious Founder
Pope the Splendid High Priest
They were not Poet Classics
Prose Classics
The Age of Prose Reason
Topic: Mathew Arnold’s Study of Poetry
Course: Literary Criticism II ENG- 332 – Instructor: Siraj Khan, Lecturer in English, Department of English KUST- Email: siraj.khan@kust.edu.pk
12. Topic: Mathew Arnold’s Study of Poetry
Course: Literary Criticism II ENG- 332 – Instructor: Siraj Khan, Lecturer in English, Department of English KUST- Email: siraj.khan@kust.edu.pk
His Views on Thomas Gray
The Classic of the 18th Century
Inherited Poetic Class
A Poet of Classical Ideals
Scanties, Frailest Classic
13. His Views on Robert Burns
Lacks High Seriousness
Unlike Chaucer in all Cadres of Poetic Style
Largeness , Benighnity, Freedom and
Spontaneity
Superior than all except Shakespeare
Topic: Mathew Arnold’s Study of Poetry
Course: Literary Criticism II ENG- 332 – Instructor: Siraj Khan, Lecturer in English, Department of English KUST- Email: siraj.khan@kust.edu.pk
14. His Views on Shakespeare
• In his sonnet On Shakespeare he says;
• “Others abide our question.
Thou are free.
We ask and ask
Thou smilest and art still,
Out-topping knowledge'.
Topic: Mathew Arnold’s Study of Poetry
Course: Literary Criticism II ENG- 332 – Instructor: Siraj Khan, Lecturer in English, Department of English KUST- Email: siraj.khan@kust.edu.pk
15. • Arnold's criticism of life is often marred by his naive moralizing,
by his inadequate perception of the relation between art and
morality, and by his uncritical admiration of what he regarded as
the golden sanity of the ancient Greeks.
• For all his championing of disinterestedness, Arnold was unable
to practice disinterestedness in all his essays.
• In his essay on Shelley particularly, he displayed a lamentable
lack of disinterestedness. Shelley's moral views were too much for
the Victorian Arnold.
• In his essay on Keats too Arnold failed to be disinterested. The
sentimental letters of Keats to Fanny Brawne were too much for
him. But Arnold's insistence on the standards and his concern over
the relation between poetry and life make him one of the great
modern critics.
Course: Literary Criticism II ENG- 332 – Instructor: Siraj Khan, Lecturer in English, Department of English KUST- Email: siraj.khan@kust.edu.pk
Topic: Mathew Arnold’s Study of Poetry
Criticism On Arnold’s Views
16. Topic: Mathew Arnold’s Study of Poetry
George Sainsburry: A History of English
Criticism:
“all literature is the application of ideas of
life and to say that poetry is the application of
ideas to life under conditions fixed for poetry, is
simply a vain repetition.
T.S.Eliot: ‘His observation that ‘poetry is
criticism of life’ is repeating Aristotle. Nothing
novel is contributed as a critic.’