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The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is an essay, composed by William Wordsworth, for the second edition of the poetry collection Lyrical Ballads, and then greatly expanded in the third edition of 1802. It has come to be seen as a de facto manifesto of the Romantic movement.
"For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is fact."
This is said by Matthew Arnold. According to him, IDEA is supreme and in poetry, it is the idea that matters, that are attached by poetry through emotions. According to him THE FUNCTION OF POETRY is to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. He says if SCIENCE IS APPEARANCE then the POETRY IS EXPRESSION and there is no appearance without expression.
Then Arnold talks about setting our standard for poetry high. We must accustom ourselves to HIGH STANDARD and STRICT JUDGEMENT and there is no place for CHARLATANISM in poetry. Charlatanism is for confusing the difference between excellent and inferior, sound and unsound or only half sound, true and untrue or only half true. Judging with little differences has paramount importance, so there is no place for charlatanism in poetry.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his Biographia Literature considered that the mind can be divided into two faculties called as imagination and fancy.
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This presentation deals with chapter 14 of 'Biographia Literaria' written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It deals with his famous defence of Wordsworth's poetic creed, difference between prose and poem; and more importantly, difference between poem and poetry
Poetry, he wrote in the Preface, originates from âthe spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsâ which is filtered through âemotion recollected in tranquillityâ.
The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is an essay, composed by William Wordsworth, for the second edition of the poetry collection Lyrical Ballads, and then greatly expanded in the third edition of 1802. It has come to be seen as a de facto manifesto of the Romantic movement.
"For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is fact."
This is said by Matthew Arnold. According to him, IDEA is supreme and in poetry, it is the idea that matters, that are attached by poetry through emotions. According to him THE FUNCTION OF POETRY is to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. He says if SCIENCE IS APPEARANCE then the POETRY IS EXPRESSION and there is no appearance without expression.
Then Arnold talks about setting our standard for poetry high. We must accustom ourselves to HIGH STANDARD and STRICT JUDGEMENT and there is no place for CHARLATANISM in poetry. Charlatanism is for confusing the difference between excellent and inferior, sound and unsound or only half sound, true and untrue or only half true. Judging with little differences has paramount importance, so there is no place for charlatanism in poetry.
The concept of imagination in biographia literariaDayamani Surya
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his Biographia Literature considered that the mind can be divided into two faculties called as imagination and fancy.
Imagination is further divided into two types namely Primary Imagination and Secondary Imagination.
Samuel Coleridge- Biographia Literaria Ch 14Dilip Barad
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This presentation deals with chapter 14 of 'Biographia Literaria' written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It deals with his famous defence of Wordsworth's poetic creed, difference between prose and poem; and more importantly, difference between poem and poetry
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Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 â 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator.
During this time Arnold wrote the bulk of his most famous critical works, Essays in Criticism (1865) and Culture and Anarchy (1869), in which he sets forth ideas that greatly reflect the predominant values of the Victorian era.
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This presentation deals with Greek philosopher Plato's objections to poetry and Aristotle's clarification on the confusion created by Plato. It is said that Plato confused study of morals/ethics with that of aesthetics. Aristotle removed this confusion.
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An Apology for Poetry[7] (also known as A Defence of Poesie and The Defence of Poetry) â Sidney wrote the Defence before 1583. It is generally believed that he was at least partly motivated by Stephen Gosson, a former playwright who dedicated his attack on the English stage, The School of Abuse, to Sidney in 1579, but Sidney primarily addresses more general objections to poetry, such as those of Plato. In his essay, Sidney integrates a number of classical and Italian precepts on fiction. The essence of his defence is that poetry, by combining the liveliness of history with the ethical focus of philosophy, is more effective than either history or philosophy in rousing its readers to virtue. The work also offers important comments on Edmund Spenser and the Elizabethan stage. from wikipidea
Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 â 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator.
During this time Arnold wrote the bulk of his most famous critical works, Essays in Criticism (1865) and Culture and Anarchy (1869), in which he sets forth ideas that greatly reflect the predominant values of the Victorian era.
Literary Theory and Criticism
By Belachew Weldegebriel
Jimma University
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Department of English Language and Literature
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This presentation deals with Greek philosopher Plato's objections to poetry and Aristotle's clarification on the confusion created by Plato. It is said that Plato confused study of morals/ethics with that of aesthetics. Aristotle removed this confusion.
According to William Wordsworth poetry is the powerful overflow of spontaneous feelings. Wordsworth describes his main intention to write Lyrical Ballads is to choose incidents from real life and add a colour of imagination so that ordinary things may be represented in an unusual fashion.
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1. The Study of Poetry (1880)
Mrs. M. Annalakshmi
Asst. Professor, English
2. Questions:
ï Discuss Matthew Arnoldâs views on characteristics of good
poetry.
ï âPoetry is the criticism of life, governed by the laws of poetic
truth and poetic beautyâ: Discuss.
ï â⊠real estimate, the only true one, is liable to be superseded, if
we are not watchful, by two other kinds of estimate, the historic
estimate and the personal estimate, both of which are
fallacious.â Discuss Arnoldâs views of the historic, the Personal,
the Real.
ï Elucidate Arnoldâs views on good poetry as âthe superior character of
truth and seriousness, in the matter and substance of the best poetry,
is inseparable from the superiority of diction and movement marking
its style and mannerâ with reference his essay The Study of Poetry.
3. ïMatthew Arnoldâs touchstone method
ïArnoldâs views of Chaucer as a poet.
ïArnoldâs views on the age of Dryden and Pope
ïArnoldâs views on Robert Burns as a poet
ïArnold as a critic: (His limitations and legacies)
4. Victorian Criticism
ï¶ Art and Morality: Art for Lifeâs sake
â Carlyle and Ruskin: Moral view point should be the
benchmark to judge the work of literature. Art should
be for the betterment of life.
ï¶ Art and Aesthetic pleasure: art for Artâs sake
â Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde: Aesthetic and artistic
delight should be the benchmark to judge the work of
literature: Art should be for delight and pleasure of
mankind.
ï¶ Golden Mean: Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
5. Matthew Arnold: The Critic
ï¶ The business of criticism, he says, is neither to find fault nor to
display the criticâs own learning or influence; it is to know âthe best
which has been thought and said in the worldâ and by using this
knowledge to create a current of fresh and free thought.
(W.J.Long)
ï¶ The Study of poetry: The first essay in the 1888 volume was
originally published as the general introduction to T.H. Wardâs
anthology, The English Poets (1880).
ï¶ His classicism: He did not like the spasmodic expression of
Romanticism. He advocated discipline in writing and
recommended the classical writers.
6. The Future of Poetry
ï âTHE FUTURE of poetry is immense, because in poetry, our race, as
time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a
creed which is not shaken. But for poetry the idea is everything;
the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its
emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our
religion to-day is its unconscious poetry.â
ï We have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to
sustain us. Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete;
and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy
will be replaced by poetry.
7. Poetry is Criticism of Life
â Arnold asserts that literature, and especially poetry, is
"Criticism of Life".
â In poetry, this criticism of life must conform to the
laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
â Truth and seriousness of matter, felicity and
perfection of diction and manner, as are exhibited in
the best poets, are what constitutes a criticism of
life.
8. Poetry interprets life . . .
â Poetry, says Arnold, interprets life in two ways: "Poetry is
interpretative by having natural magic in it, and moral
profundity".
â And to achieve this the poet must aim at high and excellent
seriousness in all that he writes. This demand has two essential
qualities.
â The first is the choice of excellent actions. The poet must
choose those which most powerfully appeal to the great
primary human feelings which subsist permanently in the race.
â The second essential is what Arnold calls the Grand Style - the
perfection of form, choice of words, drawing its force directly
from the matter which it conveys.
9. Key components of poetry
âą Thus, the superior character of truth and
seriousness, in the matter and substance of the
best poetry, is inseparable from the superiority
of diction and movement marking its style and
manner.
10. Touchstone Method
â His general principles was - the" Touchstone Method" â which
introduced scientific objectivity to critical evaluation by
providing comparison and analysis as the two primary tools for
judging individual poets.
â Thus, Chaucer, Dryden, Pope, and Shelley fall short of the best,
because they lack "high seriousness". Arnold's ideal poets are
Homer and Sophocles in the ancient world, Dante and Milton,
and among moderns, Goethe and Wordsworth.
â Arnold puts Wordsworth in the front rank not for his poetry
but for his "criticism of life".
11. Fallacies of Real Estimate
ï Arnold while giving his touchstone method makes reader
aware about the fallacy in judgment. He is of the view that
historical fallacy and personal fallacy mars the real estimate of
poetry. While expressing his views of the historic, the Personal,
the Real he writes that â⊠in reading poetry, a sense for the
best, the really excellent, and of the strength and joy to be
drawn from it, should be present in our minds and should
govern our estimate of what we read. But this real estimate,
the only true one, is liable to be superseded, if we are not
watchful, by two other kinds of estimate, the historic estimate
and the personal estimate, both of which are fallaciousâ.
12. On Chaucer
Arnold praises Chaucer's excellent style and
manner, but says that Chaucer cannot be
called a classic since, unlike Homer, Virgil and
Shakespeare, his poetry does not have the
high poetic seriousness which Aristotle
regards as a mark of its superiority over the
other arts.
13. On Dryden and Pope
ï Hence we can regard Dryden as the glorious
founder, and Pope as the splendid high
priest, of the age of prose and reason, our
indispensable 18th century. Their poetry was
that of the builders of an age of prose and
reason. Arnold says that Pope and Dryden are
not poet classics, but the 'prose classics' of the
18th century.
14. On Thomas Gray
As for poetry, he considers Gray to be the only
classic of the 18th century. Gray constantly
studied and enjoyed Greek poetry and thus
inherited their poetic point of view and their
application of poetry to life. But he is the
'scantiest, frailest classic' since his output was
small.
15. On Robert Burns
ï Like Chaucer, Burns lacks high poetic seriousness,
though his poems have poetic truth in diction and
movement.
ï Also like Chaucer, Burns possesses largeness, benignity,
freedom and spontaneity. But instead of Chaucer's
fluidity, we find in Burns a springing bounding energy.
Chaucer's benignity deepens in Burns into a sense of
sympathy for both human as well as non-human
things, but Chaucer's world is richer and fairer than
that of Burns.
ï Sometimes Burns's poetic genius is unmatched by
anyone. He is even better than Goethe at times and he
is unrivalled by anyone except Shakespeare.
16. On Shakespeare
Praising Shakespeare, Arnold says 'In England
there needs a miracle of genius like Shakespeare's
to produce a balance of mind'. This is praise
tempered by a critical sense. In a letter he writes.
'I keep saying Shakespeare, you are as obscure as
life is'.
ï In his sonnet On Shakespeare he says;
ï 'Others abide our question. Thou are free./ We
ask and ask - Thou smiles and art still,/ Out topping
knowledge'.
17. Criticism of his viewpoint
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.
â For all his championing of disinterestedness, Arnold was unable to practice
disinterestedness in all his essays.
â In his essay on Shelley particularly, he displayed a lamentable lack of
disinterestedness. Shelley's moral views were too much for the Victorian
Arnold.
â In his essay on Keats too Arnold failed to be disinterested. The sentimental
letters of Keats to Fanny Browne 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.
18. CONCLUSION
ï George Sainsbury: A History of English Criticism:
âall 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.
ï T.S.Eliot: âHis observation that âpoetry is criticism
of lifeâ is repeating Aristotle. Nothing novel is
contributed as a critic.â