1. Sidney's Defence of Poetry was written after leaving court service and trying to establish himself as a poet, which he saw as his new vocation. However, the document suggests his true passion lay in military action and serving the state.
2. Throughout the text, Sidney uses military language and examples of warrior princes to make his arguments for poetry, indicating his unconscious preference for his previous life and ambitions in war over his new career as a poet.
3. The Defence of Poetry reflects Sidney's frustration at being unable to pursue his desires of military glory, and represents an attempt to validate the poetic career he felt forced into after losing his court position and chance for an elected public service.
This document summarizes I.A. Richards' views on figurative language in poetry. Richards advocated for close textual analysis of poetry to understand the four types of meanings conveyed - sense, feeling, tone, and intention. He distinguished the scientific versus emotive uses of language. Richards also discussed misunderstandings that can occur from over-literal readings or defective scholarship. The document provides examples of sense and emotive metaphors, as well as similes, and notes that figurative language can be difficult to understand but enhances the enjoyment of poetry.
Matthew Arnold was a 19th century British poet and cultural critic. He worked as a school inspector after marrying in 1851. Arnold published several volumes of poetry and was appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford University in 1857. He is considered one of the major Victorian poets along with Tennyson and Browning. Arnold used his poetry to philosophize about finding meaning and happiness in life. He also wrote extensively about education and culture.
The document summarizes Amitav Ghosh's novel "The Shadow Lines". It provides background on the author, publication details of the novel, and discusses key themes like nationalism. It also summarizes the plot, which follows a young narrator and his memories of his cousin Ila. The novel examines how political boundaries are created and can divide societies, as seen in the division of India. It analyzes memories and connections between people and places across borders.
The document discusses the role and importance of the reader in Henry Fielding's novels Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones. It explains that Fielding viewed the reader as an active participant in constructing the meaning of the novel, rather than a passive receiver. He used techniques like contrast, ambiguity, and direct addresses to the reader to encourage participation and independent thinking. The document also analyzes how Fielding provided guidance to readers through author-reader dialogue, while still allowing complexity and open-ended interpretations.
I.A. Richards was an influential 20th century British literary critic who helped pioneer New Criticism. He emphasized close textual analysis and believed criticism should be empirical and focus solely on what is in the text rather than external factors. Richards developed techniques for analyzing how words, metaphors, rhythm and context contribute to a work's meaning and emotional effects. He also explored literature's psychological impacts and believed it could provide readers with emotional balance and organization. Richards' works and experiments analyzing anonymous poems without context helped establish Practical Criticism as a new approach to literary study.
Ted Hughes' conception of nature is marked by a recognition of violence and aggression that corresponds with the post-war era. Hughes' poetry highlights man's fragmented nature due to his alienation from the natural world. Hughes focuses on animals, their energies, and the darker violent side of nature. His poems use animals as metaphors to reflect the conflict between violence and tenderness in human society. Poems like "The Thought Fox" and "Pike" illustrate Hughes' view of the inherent violence in nature and competition for survival.
Various concepts in the play "The Hairy Ape"Kaushal Desai
There are many things and concepts one can come across while reading of the play "The Hairy Ape". Here, I have tried to take major concepts in consideration with explanation through the play.
Passage to india major characters and themesdoaa2015
1. A Passage to India is a 1924 novel by E.M. Forster set during the British colonial period in India. It examines the conflict and tensions between British colonists and Indians.
2. The main characters are Dr. Aziz, an Indian physician; Mrs. Moore, a British woman visiting India; Miss Adela Quested, a young British woman; and Cyril Fielding, a British schoolmaster who befriends Aziz.
3. Adela accuses Aziz of assaulting her in the Marabar Caves, inflaming racial tensions and exposing the prejudices between Indians and their British rulers. Aziz's trial becomes a symbol of these divisions in colonial India.
This document summarizes I.A. Richards' views on figurative language in poetry. Richards advocated for close textual analysis of poetry to understand the four types of meanings conveyed - sense, feeling, tone, and intention. He distinguished the scientific versus emotive uses of language. Richards also discussed misunderstandings that can occur from over-literal readings or defective scholarship. The document provides examples of sense and emotive metaphors, as well as similes, and notes that figurative language can be difficult to understand but enhances the enjoyment of poetry.
Matthew Arnold was a 19th century British poet and cultural critic. He worked as a school inspector after marrying in 1851. Arnold published several volumes of poetry and was appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford University in 1857. He is considered one of the major Victorian poets along with Tennyson and Browning. Arnold used his poetry to philosophize about finding meaning and happiness in life. He also wrote extensively about education and culture.
The document summarizes Amitav Ghosh's novel "The Shadow Lines". It provides background on the author, publication details of the novel, and discusses key themes like nationalism. It also summarizes the plot, which follows a young narrator and his memories of his cousin Ila. The novel examines how political boundaries are created and can divide societies, as seen in the division of India. It analyzes memories and connections between people and places across borders.
The document discusses the role and importance of the reader in Henry Fielding's novels Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones. It explains that Fielding viewed the reader as an active participant in constructing the meaning of the novel, rather than a passive receiver. He used techniques like contrast, ambiguity, and direct addresses to the reader to encourage participation and independent thinking. The document also analyzes how Fielding provided guidance to readers through author-reader dialogue, while still allowing complexity and open-ended interpretations.
I.A. Richards was an influential 20th century British literary critic who helped pioneer New Criticism. He emphasized close textual analysis and believed criticism should be empirical and focus solely on what is in the text rather than external factors. Richards developed techniques for analyzing how words, metaphors, rhythm and context contribute to a work's meaning and emotional effects. He also explored literature's psychological impacts and believed it could provide readers with emotional balance and organization. Richards' works and experiments analyzing anonymous poems without context helped establish Practical Criticism as a new approach to literary study.
Ted Hughes' conception of nature is marked by a recognition of violence and aggression that corresponds with the post-war era. Hughes' poetry highlights man's fragmented nature due to his alienation from the natural world. Hughes focuses on animals, their energies, and the darker violent side of nature. His poems use animals as metaphors to reflect the conflict between violence and tenderness in human society. Poems like "The Thought Fox" and "Pike" illustrate Hughes' view of the inherent violence in nature and competition for survival.
Various concepts in the play "The Hairy Ape"Kaushal Desai
There are many things and concepts one can come across while reading of the play "The Hairy Ape". Here, I have tried to take major concepts in consideration with explanation through the play.
Passage to india major characters and themesdoaa2015
1. A Passage to India is a 1924 novel by E.M. Forster set during the British colonial period in India. It examines the conflict and tensions between British colonists and Indians.
2. The main characters are Dr. Aziz, an Indian physician; Mrs. Moore, a British woman visiting India; Miss Adela Quested, a young British woman; and Cyril Fielding, a British schoolmaster who befriends Aziz.
3. Adela accuses Aziz of assaulting her in the Marabar Caves, inflaming racial tensions and exposing the prejudices between Indians and their British rulers. Aziz's trial becomes a symbol of these divisions in colonial India.
Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar, and soldier, who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. His works include Astrophel and Stella, The Defence of Poesy (also known as The Defence of Poetry or An Apology for Poetry), and The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.
His artistic contacts were more peaceful and more significant for his lasting fame. During his absence from court, he wrote Astrophel and Stella and the first draft of The Arcadia and The Defence of Poesy. Somewhat earlier, he had met Edmund Spenser, who dedicated The Shepheardes Calender to him. Other literary contacts included membership, along with his friends and fellow poets Fulke Greville, Edward Dyer, Edmund Spenser and Gabriel Harvey, of the (possibly fictitious) 'Areopagus', a humanist endeavour to classicise English verse.
Both through his family heritage and his personal experience (he was in Walsingham's house in Paris during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre), Sidney was a keenly militant Protestant. In the 1570s, he had persuaded John Casimir to consider proposals for a united Protestant effort against the Roman Catholic Church and Spain. In the early 1580s, he argued unsuccessfully for an assault on Spain itself. Promoted General of Horse in 1583,[1] his enthusiasm for the Protestant struggle was given a free rein when he was appointed governor of Flushing in the Netherlands in 1585. In the Netherlands, he consistently urged boldness on his superior, his uncle the Earl of Leicester. He conducted a successful raid on Spanish forces near Axel in July, 1586.
An early biography of Sidney was written by his friend and schoolfellow, Fulke Greville. While Sidney was traditionally depicted as a staunch and unwavering Protestant, recent biographers such as Katherine Duncan-Jones have suggested that his religious loyalties were more ambiguous. He was known to be friendly and sympathetic towards individual Catholics.
An Apology for Poetry(also known as A Defence of Poesie and The Defence of Poetry) – 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.
Modernism was an artistic movement that arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a reaction against traditional forms of art and literature. The movement reflected broader societal transformations brought about by industrialization, urbanization, new technologies, and World Wars. Modernist artists and writers sought to depart from traditional forms they viewed as outdated in order to develop new forms that captured the modern experience. Some key influences on Modernism included theories of relativity, psychoanalysis, and Darwin's theory of evolution, which challenged long-held beliefs. Modernism had a significant impact on fields like painting, music, dance, philosophy, psychology, architecture, science, sculpture, and literature.
The document discusses the themes in W.H. Auden's poetry. It notes that his poetry covered themes of love, religion, politics and social concerns, citizenship, war, death, and modern horrors like totalitarianism. Auden's poetry expressed messages about the need for human connection and love in the face of these difficult themes and times. His work reflected the political turmoil of his era and events like the Spanish Civil War.
The document provides background information on Henry Fielding's novel "Joseph Andrews". Published in 1742, it was one of the first novels written in English and tells the story of the adventures of the title character Joseph Andrews and his friend Parson Adams. The novel brought together two different literary aesthetics that were popular during the 18th century Augustan period: the mock heroic style of authors like Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, and the domestic prose fiction of writers such as Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson. The story embodied the principles of reason and empiricism that defined the Augustan Age. While some critics praised Fielding's realistic depictions of human nature, others disliked his satirical parody of Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela
T.S. Eliot was an American-born poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was born in 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Harvard University where he received both undergraduate and graduate degrees. After college, he spent time touring Europe before moving to London in 1915. Some of his most famous works include The Waste Land and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Eliot was heavily influenced by myths and used fragmentation in his works to reflect the modern experience. The Waste Land addresses themes of cultural fragmentation in the post-WWI period through its use of allusion and symbols.
Henrik Ibsen's 1879 play A Doll's House revolves around Nora Helmer, a housewife living in 19th century Norway. The play shocked audiences by having Nora abandon her husband and children at the end to find her own identity. Ibsen uses the characters and their relationships to critique gender roles and social norms of the Victorian era. Through revelations of past deceptions, the play builds tension as Nora realizes she has been living unfulfilled in a doll-like existence and decides to forge her own path independent from men.
John Dryden was an influential English poet, playwright and critic in the 17th century. As a critic, he wrote An Essay of Dramatic Poesy in 1668 to discuss issues in English drama. In the essay, Dryden argues through a dialogue between four characters with different positions on topics like the ancients vs moderns, the unities, French vs English drama, and the appropriateness of rhyme in plays. Though he favors modern English plays, Dryden does not disparage the ancients. He also favors English drama over French drama and compares Shakespeare favorably to Jonson.
Matthew Arnold viewed poetry as the "criticism of life" that is governed by poetic truth and beauty. He believed the best poetry has seriousness of substance combined with superior style and diction. Arnold analyzed poets using his "touchstone method" of comparison and advocated for disinterested criticism. However, critics argue he did not always practice disinterested criticism and overemphasized morality. Overall, Arnold made significant contributions to literary criticism through his analysis of poets and emphasis on poetry's relationship to interpreting life.
Edmund spenser was an English poet best known for the faerie Queene an epic poem. He is recognised as one of the premier craftmen of nascent modern english verse and is often considered one of the greatest poet in the English language
1. The novel criticizes the mechanization of human beings through industrialization as represented by Gradgrind who teaches only facts and Bounderby who treats workers as machines. This dulls emotions and imaginations.
2. It questions distinguishing only facts from fancy, suggesting perspective influences facts. Gradgrind's children suffer from prohibiting fancy.
3. It promotes femininity's role in countering industrialization through compassion, showing how women help others through hard times.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an Irish playwright born in 1751. He came from a family of talented writers and actors. Sheridan helped revive the English comedy of manners genre through plays like The Rivals and The School for Scandal, which use sparkling dialogue and farce to satirize society. While sometimes lacking depth, Sheridan's plays demonstrate his talent for crafting witty comedies through memorable characters. Some of his most popular works include The School for Scandal, The Duenna, and The Critic.
Sir Philip Sidney wrote "An Apology for Poetry" in the 1580s to defend poetry against criticisms. In the summary, Sidney argues that poetry is superior to other fields as it can teach virtue and move people through charm. Poetry uses imitation, not just copying reality, but transforming it or creating new forms. It can depict both virtues and vices in a delightful manner to instruct people. Overall, Sidney establishes poetry's value and defends it as an art form.
The theory of Impersonality by T.S. Eliot Monir Hossen
This document discusses T.S. Eliot's theory of impersonality in poetry. It provides context around Eliot's views as expressed in some of his early essays. While Eliot advocated for impersonality and focusing on the poetry rather than the poet, the document notes that critics have argued Eliot often smuggled his own personality back into his works. It also examines Eliot's use of first-person pronouns in some of his poems like "The Waste Land" and "Ash Wednesday" to show how exploring impersonality through pronouns is not entirely reliable given Eliot's use of persona.
Difference from Plato's Concept of Imitation, New Dimensions, Poetry linked with Music, Medium of Poetic Imitation, Object of Imitation, Manner of Imitation, Artistic Imitation: A Process of Ordering and Arranging
hard times novel by charles dicken by quratulain akhter Quratulainakhter
Hard Times (1854), dickens has constructed an almost entirely mechanized world of people, ideas and environments.
This suggests that the natural and corresponding counterpart always needs to fight for its self-preservation among characters’ perceptions and within settings.
The philosophy mirrors the mechanical characteristics of industrialisation and hence expresses the great importance of mechanical perceptions such as objective utilitarianism and factual statistics.
Importance
i. Hard Times has also been described as a novel which asks most clearly to be read not as a mere fictional world but as a commentary on 4 a contemporary crisis ii. The novel is therefore not only supposed to be a pleasant and entertaining read.
iii. It is a work of fiction which contains a serious depth and has an underlying gravity which is important to be aware of.
iv. It is both criticism of industrialism and an attempt to raise awareness among people about how they think.
v. Hard Times has the effect of tempting the reader to reflect upon his or her situation and how they believe they live their lives, as well as how they imagine their relationships with others are.
Literary Criticism - Essay on Dramatic PoesyRohitVyas25
John Dryden has given good criticism for dramatic poesy. Here in this presentation, I've put introduction of the original essay and Dryden's definition of play.
Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, and social activist known for his work in logic, education, philosophy and political theory. He co-founded analytic philosophy and defended logicism, the view that mathematics is derived from logic. Russell is also known for his paradox in set theory. He opened an experimental school and believed education was key to conveying his social beliefs, which included opposition to nuclear weapons and Western involvement in Vietnam.
Salman Rushdie uses magic realism in his novel Midnight's Children to tell the story of India's independence. The main character, Saleem Sinai, is born at midnight on August 15th, 1947, when India gains independence. He and other children born at that moment have special supernatural powers. Rushdie blends realistic historical events with magical elements to reflect how independence was experienced on an individual level. Saleem acts as a telepathic link between hundreds of children with gifts, trying to understand their purpose and connection to India's fate. Magic realism allows Rushdie to incorporate indigenous worldviews and critique the effects of colonialism on post-independence India.
This document contains a summary of the play Doctor Faustus. It discusses that Faustus is a brilliant scholar who is hungry to know everything but chooses the wrong path of magic and deals with the devil to gain knowledge and power. Despite warnings from the good angel, Faustus ignores the advice and meets a tragic end as his soul is taken to hell. The summary emphasizes that Faustus's curiosity and desire for knowledge led him to make a mistake by relying on evil instead of good.
Analysis of Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of PoesyMegan DC
Sir Philip Sidney wrote "An Apology for Poetry" in 1579 to defend poetry against criticism from Stephen Gossen's "School of Abuse." In his defense of poetry, Sidney draws heavily from classical works, citing Plato, Aristotle, and Horace. He uses their ideas about poetry's purpose and value to argue that poetry is not simply deceitful but can be educational and promote morality. Sidney incorporates classical history and ideas to establish a broader context and strengthen his defense of the power and importance of poetry.
Sir Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry is a seminal work of Renaissance literary theory that defends the value and importance of poetry. Sidney argues that poetry is superior to other fields like philosophy and history in its ability to teach virtue and move people to moral action. He addresses common criticisms of poetry, such as that it is frivolous or promotes vice, and counters that poetry holds a long tradition of being valued for its ability to inspire. While some poetry in England at the time was of poor quality, Sidney believes the English language is well-suited to poetry and hopes for future poets to realize its full potential.
Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar, and soldier, who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. His works include Astrophel and Stella, The Defence of Poesy (also known as The Defence of Poetry or An Apology for Poetry), and The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.
His artistic contacts were more peaceful and more significant for his lasting fame. During his absence from court, he wrote Astrophel and Stella and the first draft of The Arcadia and The Defence of Poesy. Somewhat earlier, he had met Edmund Spenser, who dedicated The Shepheardes Calender to him. Other literary contacts included membership, along with his friends and fellow poets Fulke Greville, Edward Dyer, Edmund Spenser and Gabriel Harvey, of the (possibly fictitious) 'Areopagus', a humanist endeavour to classicise English verse.
Both through his family heritage and his personal experience (he was in Walsingham's house in Paris during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre), Sidney was a keenly militant Protestant. In the 1570s, he had persuaded John Casimir to consider proposals for a united Protestant effort against the Roman Catholic Church and Spain. In the early 1580s, he argued unsuccessfully for an assault on Spain itself. Promoted General of Horse in 1583,[1] his enthusiasm for the Protestant struggle was given a free rein when he was appointed governor of Flushing in the Netherlands in 1585. In the Netherlands, he consistently urged boldness on his superior, his uncle the Earl of Leicester. He conducted a successful raid on Spanish forces near Axel in July, 1586.
An early biography of Sidney was written by his friend and schoolfellow, Fulke Greville. While Sidney was traditionally depicted as a staunch and unwavering Protestant, recent biographers such as Katherine Duncan-Jones have suggested that his religious loyalties were more ambiguous. He was known to be friendly and sympathetic towards individual Catholics.
An Apology for Poetry(also known as A Defence of Poesie and The Defence of Poetry) – 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.
Modernism was an artistic movement that arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a reaction against traditional forms of art and literature. The movement reflected broader societal transformations brought about by industrialization, urbanization, new technologies, and World Wars. Modernist artists and writers sought to depart from traditional forms they viewed as outdated in order to develop new forms that captured the modern experience. Some key influences on Modernism included theories of relativity, psychoanalysis, and Darwin's theory of evolution, which challenged long-held beliefs. Modernism had a significant impact on fields like painting, music, dance, philosophy, psychology, architecture, science, sculpture, and literature.
The document discusses the themes in W.H. Auden's poetry. It notes that his poetry covered themes of love, religion, politics and social concerns, citizenship, war, death, and modern horrors like totalitarianism. Auden's poetry expressed messages about the need for human connection and love in the face of these difficult themes and times. His work reflected the political turmoil of his era and events like the Spanish Civil War.
The document provides background information on Henry Fielding's novel "Joseph Andrews". Published in 1742, it was one of the first novels written in English and tells the story of the adventures of the title character Joseph Andrews and his friend Parson Adams. The novel brought together two different literary aesthetics that were popular during the 18th century Augustan period: the mock heroic style of authors like Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, and the domestic prose fiction of writers such as Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson. The story embodied the principles of reason and empiricism that defined the Augustan Age. While some critics praised Fielding's realistic depictions of human nature, others disliked his satirical parody of Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela
T.S. Eliot was an American-born poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was born in 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended Harvard University where he received both undergraduate and graduate degrees. After college, he spent time touring Europe before moving to London in 1915. Some of his most famous works include The Waste Land and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Eliot was heavily influenced by myths and used fragmentation in his works to reflect the modern experience. The Waste Land addresses themes of cultural fragmentation in the post-WWI period through its use of allusion and symbols.
Henrik Ibsen's 1879 play A Doll's House revolves around Nora Helmer, a housewife living in 19th century Norway. The play shocked audiences by having Nora abandon her husband and children at the end to find her own identity. Ibsen uses the characters and their relationships to critique gender roles and social norms of the Victorian era. Through revelations of past deceptions, the play builds tension as Nora realizes she has been living unfulfilled in a doll-like existence and decides to forge her own path independent from men.
John Dryden was an influential English poet, playwright and critic in the 17th century. As a critic, he wrote An Essay of Dramatic Poesy in 1668 to discuss issues in English drama. In the essay, Dryden argues through a dialogue between four characters with different positions on topics like the ancients vs moderns, the unities, French vs English drama, and the appropriateness of rhyme in plays. Though he favors modern English plays, Dryden does not disparage the ancients. He also favors English drama over French drama and compares Shakespeare favorably to Jonson.
Matthew Arnold viewed poetry as the "criticism of life" that is governed by poetic truth and beauty. He believed the best poetry has seriousness of substance combined with superior style and diction. Arnold analyzed poets using his "touchstone method" of comparison and advocated for disinterested criticism. However, critics argue he did not always practice disinterested criticism and overemphasized morality. Overall, Arnold made significant contributions to literary criticism through his analysis of poets and emphasis on poetry's relationship to interpreting life.
Edmund spenser was an English poet best known for the faerie Queene an epic poem. He is recognised as one of the premier craftmen of nascent modern english verse and is often considered one of the greatest poet in the English language
1. The novel criticizes the mechanization of human beings through industrialization as represented by Gradgrind who teaches only facts and Bounderby who treats workers as machines. This dulls emotions and imaginations.
2. It questions distinguishing only facts from fancy, suggesting perspective influences facts. Gradgrind's children suffer from prohibiting fancy.
3. It promotes femininity's role in countering industrialization through compassion, showing how women help others through hard times.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an Irish playwright born in 1751. He came from a family of talented writers and actors. Sheridan helped revive the English comedy of manners genre through plays like The Rivals and The School for Scandal, which use sparkling dialogue and farce to satirize society. While sometimes lacking depth, Sheridan's plays demonstrate his talent for crafting witty comedies through memorable characters. Some of his most popular works include The School for Scandal, The Duenna, and The Critic.
Sir Philip Sidney wrote "An Apology for Poetry" in the 1580s to defend poetry against criticisms. In the summary, Sidney argues that poetry is superior to other fields as it can teach virtue and move people through charm. Poetry uses imitation, not just copying reality, but transforming it or creating new forms. It can depict both virtues and vices in a delightful manner to instruct people. Overall, Sidney establishes poetry's value and defends it as an art form.
The theory of Impersonality by T.S. Eliot Monir Hossen
This document discusses T.S. Eliot's theory of impersonality in poetry. It provides context around Eliot's views as expressed in some of his early essays. While Eliot advocated for impersonality and focusing on the poetry rather than the poet, the document notes that critics have argued Eliot often smuggled his own personality back into his works. It also examines Eliot's use of first-person pronouns in some of his poems like "The Waste Land" and "Ash Wednesday" to show how exploring impersonality through pronouns is not entirely reliable given Eliot's use of persona.
Difference from Plato's Concept of Imitation, New Dimensions, Poetry linked with Music, Medium of Poetic Imitation, Object of Imitation, Manner of Imitation, Artistic Imitation: A Process of Ordering and Arranging
hard times novel by charles dicken by quratulain akhter Quratulainakhter
Hard Times (1854), dickens has constructed an almost entirely mechanized world of people, ideas and environments.
This suggests that the natural and corresponding counterpart always needs to fight for its self-preservation among characters’ perceptions and within settings.
The philosophy mirrors the mechanical characteristics of industrialisation and hence expresses the great importance of mechanical perceptions such as objective utilitarianism and factual statistics.
Importance
i. Hard Times has also been described as a novel which asks most clearly to be read not as a mere fictional world but as a commentary on 4 a contemporary crisis ii. The novel is therefore not only supposed to be a pleasant and entertaining read.
iii. It is a work of fiction which contains a serious depth and has an underlying gravity which is important to be aware of.
iv. It is both criticism of industrialism and an attempt to raise awareness among people about how they think.
v. Hard Times has the effect of tempting the reader to reflect upon his or her situation and how they believe they live their lives, as well as how they imagine their relationships with others are.
Literary Criticism - Essay on Dramatic PoesyRohitVyas25
John Dryden has given good criticism for dramatic poesy. Here in this presentation, I've put introduction of the original essay and Dryden's definition of play.
Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, and social activist known for his work in logic, education, philosophy and political theory. He co-founded analytic philosophy and defended logicism, the view that mathematics is derived from logic. Russell is also known for his paradox in set theory. He opened an experimental school and believed education was key to conveying his social beliefs, which included opposition to nuclear weapons and Western involvement in Vietnam.
Salman Rushdie uses magic realism in his novel Midnight's Children to tell the story of India's independence. The main character, Saleem Sinai, is born at midnight on August 15th, 1947, when India gains independence. He and other children born at that moment have special supernatural powers. Rushdie blends realistic historical events with magical elements to reflect how independence was experienced on an individual level. Saleem acts as a telepathic link between hundreds of children with gifts, trying to understand their purpose and connection to India's fate. Magic realism allows Rushdie to incorporate indigenous worldviews and critique the effects of colonialism on post-independence India.
This document contains a summary of the play Doctor Faustus. It discusses that Faustus is a brilliant scholar who is hungry to know everything but chooses the wrong path of magic and deals with the devil to gain knowledge and power. Despite warnings from the good angel, Faustus ignores the advice and meets a tragic end as his soul is taken to hell. The summary emphasizes that Faustus's curiosity and desire for knowledge led him to make a mistake by relying on evil instead of good.
Analysis of Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of PoesyMegan DC
Sir Philip Sidney wrote "An Apology for Poetry" in 1579 to defend poetry against criticism from Stephen Gossen's "School of Abuse." In his defense of poetry, Sidney draws heavily from classical works, citing Plato, Aristotle, and Horace. He uses their ideas about poetry's purpose and value to argue that poetry is not simply deceitful but can be educational and promote morality. Sidney incorporates classical history and ideas to establish a broader context and strengthen his defense of the power and importance of poetry.
Sir Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry is a seminal work of Renaissance literary theory that defends the value and importance of poetry. Sidney argues that poetry is superior to other fields like philosophy and history in its ability to teach virtue and move people to moral action. He addresses common criticisms of poetry, such as that it is frivolous or promotes vice, and counters that poetry holds a long tradition of being valued for its ability to inspire. While some poetry in England at the time was of poor quality, Sidney believes the English language is well-suited to poetry and hopes for future poets to realize its full potential.
Sidney's "Apology for Poetry" argues that poetry is a divine and socially useful art form. It summarizes Sidney's main points that poetry: (1) is the first form of education and instruction for humanity; (2) acts as a channel for divine inspiration; and (3) can teach virtue while delighting readers more effectively than history or philosophy. The work refutes claims that poetry is a lie, unprofitable, or leads to sin by asserting poetry's noble aim to inspire readers rather than corrupt them.
Sir Philip Sidney was an English poet and soldier born in 1554. He wrote several literary works including The Lady of May, Astrophel and Stella, and The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. He is best known for writing An Apology for Poetry, a defense of poetry in response to attacks by Stephen Gosson. In the document, Sidney argues that poetry is a valuable source of knowledge rather than a waste of time, that poets do not lie, and that Plato wanted to banish the abuse of poetry not poetry itself. Sidney died at the age of 32 from injuries sustained in battle.
This document provides a character summary and biography of Sir Philip Sidney. Some key points:
- Sidney embodied the Renaissance ideal as a soldier, scholar, poet, critic, courtier and diplomat with broad interests.
- He was well-educated at Shrewsbury School and Oxford before traveling throughout Europe.
- Sidney held several political roles under Queen Elizabeth I, advising her on foreign affairs and serving in Parliament.
- He volunteered to fight for the Protestant cause in the Netherlands and died at age 31 from an injury sustained in battle.
- Sidney wrote the influential works The Defense of Poesy and Arcadia, as well as the sonnet sequence Astrophil and St
Sir Philip Sidney was an English poet, courtier and soldier born in 1554 in Kent, England. He received an education at Shrewsbury School and Oxford University. Sidney served Queen Elizabeth I and Emperor Rudolph II. His major works included The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. Sidney died at the age of 32 from wounds sustained in battle in the Netherlands in 1586.
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Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) was an English poet, courtier, and soldier during the Elizabethan era. He was highly educated at Shrewsbury School and Oxford and traveled extensively through Europe. Sidney wrote several important works, including the sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella, The Defence of Poetry, and the prose romance The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. He served as a soldier and governor in the Netherlands, where he was fatally wounded in battle. Sidney had a significant influence on later literature and was seen as embodying chivalric ideals of his time.
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Sidney was a 16th century English courtier, soldier, statesman, scholar and distinguished poet who lived during the Elizabethan era and was a contemporary of Shakespeare. In his work An Apology for Poetry, Sidney took a bold step away from medieval darkness and into the light of humanist concepts by becoming the first critic to use them in a treatise on literary theory in England. Though drawing from prior sources like Aristotle and Horace, Sidney's Apology was innovative in selecting and adapting ideas to arrive at his own conception of poetry, bringing an incredible polish. The work emphasized poetry's ability to move people towards perfection.
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Sir Philip Sidney was an esteemed 16th century English poet, courtier, and soldier. In his influential essay "An Apology for Poetry", Sidney defends the value of poetry against criticisms it faced during the Renaissance period. He argues that poetry is not just entertainment but has educational value by conveying knowledge through imaginative storytelling. Sidney also emphasizes poetry's ability to inspire emotions and shape moral character. In the essay, he addresses concepts like mimesis and the role of poets as teachers, ultimately concluding that poetry is an essential and elevated form of literature.
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An Apology for Poetry (or The
Defence of Poesy) is a work of
literary criticism by Elizabethan
poet Philip Sidney. It was written
in approximately 1580 and first
published in 1595, after his death .
An Apology for Poetry was written by the Elizabethan writer Philip Sidney in his defence of poetry from the accusation that was made by Stephen Gosson in his work "School of Abuse".
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THE POET AS WARRIORS IN SIDNEY’S DEFENCE OF POETRY
1. THE POET AS WARRIORS IN SIDNEY’S DEFENCE OF POETRY
Let us not shut our eyes to poets pipers
And players pull our feet back from
Resort to theater, and turn away from the
Beholding of vanity greatest storm
Of abuse will be overblown
The above mention lines are taken from Stephen Gosson’s The School of Abuse.
Gosson dedicated his work to Philip Sydney which angered him and in his answer he
wrote Apology for Poetry’. Sydney used idea from both Plato who had ironically argued
against poetry and Aristotle to make his case more consistent. The essence of his defense
is that, poetry by combining the liveliness of history with the ethical of philosophy is
rousing its readers towards virtue.
It is quite ironic to state that Sydney’s defense attracted much of his readers with
the validity of his arguments than the vitality of his prose. His rhetoric ability is quite
strong in his text that it hides his real purpose. The deeper meanings of his words are
masked by the imaginative power of language which is drawn deep from his personal
expressions. It compels his readers to stick with one idea that is redirecting the purpose of
poetry.
Another way to analyze the text is to explore the biographical and social context
within which it was conceived. While analyzing the text in this context one comes up to
the point that Sydney’s personal desires were not centered on poetry rather they were
filled with his own materialistic intentions. This particular approach is quite apparent in
the words of Margret W Ferguson ‘a poets Apology for Poetry is necessary a self
interested expressions of personal desires’.
His real essence towards life from his birth, training till election was service to the
state. His devotion towards poetry was accidental. When he lost his services from court,
poetry was the only thing which could save him from redundancy. That’s the reason why
he turned towards poetry as his new vocation. At Sydney’s time poetry was related to the
lower forms of learning and its competitors history and philosophy were reserved for
mature minds. Sydney himself has explained this poor handling of poetry in his text. For
2. Sydney poetry which was used to be the ‘highest estimation of learning’ has now ‘fallen
to be the laughing-stock of children’. It was a difficult task for Sydney to adopt
something which itself was in a need of some validation.
In his text there are certain phases in which he praises his lost vocation by leaving
poetry behind. In the very first line of text Sydney praises the importance of learning
horsemanship. By giving the example of horseman ‘as the noble of soldiers’, he
indirectly shows his inclination towards his previous vocation. He considers himself as a
perfect logician, who talks about ‘self love’ and ‘divine essence’ but from the inside his
own intentions are not clear.
While using words like ‘poor poetry’ and ‘pity full defense’ he himself lowers the
position of poetry. On the other hand he compares poetry with its most immediate
competitors history and philosophy. It is important to note here that while Sydney was
going to pursue his education his mentor Haber Languet advised him that he must turn
not to poetry but to moral philosophy and history that would help him for his future
career as a statesman. This shows that his own inclination was towards these subjects i.e.
moral philosophy and history. That is the reason he did not fully condemn them in his
defense as Plato rejected poetry in Republic, instead he used them side by side with
poetry. ‘ But serving sciences, which as they have each a private end in themselves, so
yet are they all directed to the highest end of mistress knowledge. Though he thinks that
poetry is the highest form of knowledge but on the other hand it looks like he is also
defending other sciences too.
Throughout his career he did not mention the value of poetry nor does Sydney
assign poetry any role when advising his brother or friend Edward Denny for their
education. While on the other hand he contradicts himself by giving the name of
‘Architektonike’ that is the highest end of knowledge to poetry.
When Sydney wrote his defense he was engaged in defining himself as a poet.
After paying farewell to court services he started engaging himself with poets like
Spencer and Dyer for writing and discussing poetry. Hence poetry was the ultimate
source of earning to him. He found in the role of poet the sense of vocation, which he had
been denied at court.
3. Sidney’s most desire public service was in doing military actions. His basic idea
to gain glory and respect was within wars and works related to court. During 1578,
Sydney’s pursuits for military actions in Netherlands were so strong that it provoked
stern rebuke from his mentor Languid in three separate occasions. ‘Most men of high
birth are possessed with this madness’. Languid wrote on 2 May 1578, ‘that they long
after a reputation founded on bloodshed, and believe that there is no glory for them
except that which is connected with the destruction of mankind’. On 22 October 1578 he
became more personal: You and your fellows, I mean men of noble birth, consider that
nothing brings you more honor than the wholesale slaughter.’ All these comments
directly attack on the feral temperament of Sydney. They clearly show that Sydney’s
main focus was to construct his reputation as a warrior.
Sydney’s aggressive nature and frustration after leaving court are directly
reflecting in his defense. Especially when he says ‘no more than a long gown makes an
advocate, who though he pleaded in armor, should be an advocate and no soldier’, these
words clearly shows the indirect relation of Sydney with his previous profession which
he wanted to adopt with so much devotion. He deceives his own will by disguising
himself in the cloak of poet.
To define himself as a poet Sydney took a dramatic turn. He changed his mindset
by transforming his previous ideas of poetry as merely a game to impress ladies into a
real vocation. Being a humanist himself his ideas were shaped by humanist teachings. In
order to establish his own status as a poet he attacked the humanists and statesman as the
most dangerous opponent of poetry. For that purpose his own words are quite appropriate
to state here, it was like a ‘civil war among Muses’ for him to safeguard his personal
interest. He took a step in which his own interests were also fulfilling with the help of
poetry.
Sydney’s rhetorical style is difficult to understand. By reading the surface
arguments one cannot reveal his imaginative effort which is more personally expressive.
It is quite apparent in the opening lines of Sydney defense that is the allusion of Sydney’s
youthful training as horseman. ‘When the right virtuous Edward Wotton and I were at the
emperor’s court together we gave ourselves to learn horsemanship of John Pietro
Pugliano’. These line provide analogy between Pugliano’s self interested praise of
4. horsemanship and Sydney’s self interest in poetry an example of his brilliant rhetoric
ability.
It has often been observe that Sydney at times establishes his aristocratic persona
by imposing his purpose of writing his defense on his aristocratic elite to which Sydney
himself belong and partly shares their skepticism about poetry. At some instances he
shows some nostalgic gestures of his lost promise of youth, when his training as a solder
used to be his real vocation. The word horsemanship is itself a symbol of aristocratic
elite. It refers to both Sydney and his audience to which he dedicated is work.
Sydney own youth was filled with activities involving physical strength which
was exercised with horsemanship, weapons and other qualities. He used to adopt those
things through which he can have some ‘serviceable use’. His tone becomes more
nostalgic, thus highlighting the ironic contrast between youthful promises and present
task of writing the defense. His idea of serviceable use wasted as he was devoid of using
his past skills ‘lost their meaning’.
The uses of phrases like ‘unelected vocation’ and ‘slipped into the title of poet
conveys double irony. These words clearly refer to his past hardships being a statesman.
The word ‘title’ conveys the fact that Sydney always wanted to earn the title of his uncle
Earl of Leicester. The phrase ‘un elected vocation’ conveys even double irony. For
Sydney his serviceable use was always devoted to the service to state.
Sydney’s main goal of his life was to lead England towards her destiny, to
safeguard the protestant cause. But after leaving the court he left his motives unattended
and ‘slipped’ from his heroic and elected vocation into the ‘title of poet’.
Throughout the text Sydney metaphorically uses the words like ‘Laurel crown’,
‘strong monarch’ for poets. For those arguments in which he wants to give a climatic
effect he uses strong military language ‘the great danger of civil war among the muses’ in
the beginning is the example. When he talks about the competing claims among poetry,
philosophy and history, he concludes by putting the ‘laurel crown upon the poets as
victorious’. Before turning towards his refutation he adds that ‘the laurel crown appointed
for triumphant captains doth worthily (of all other learning) honor the poet triumph.
Sydney’s use of metaphoric language places his arguments in a military tone, not
in a poetic context. Sydney allusion to Military language and aristocratic values shapes
5. his arguments. They also have a deeper meaning in them by highlighting its broader
perspective. He extends his reference by applying a complete hierarchy of skills,
ascending from saddler, to horseman, to soldier, to soldier with theory, to soldier with
theory and practice, to prince. Thus his definition of the goal of all learning is in the
image of the warrior prince.
While talking about the different genre of poetry especially in his treatment of
lyric Sydney devote only single clause to those poems which are in the praise of God, and
rest of the thirty lines are addressing those poems which are in the praise of warriors. He
talks about the songs of ‘Percy and Douglas’ moved his heart more than a trumpet. He
recalls hearing at Hungarian ‘feast songs of other ancestor valor, which that right soldier
like nation thinks one of the chiefest kindlers of brave courage. This kind of poetry he
concludes is ‘most capable and most fit to awake the thoughts from the sleep of idleness
to embrace honorable enterprises’. He shows his readers an image of poet who is difficult
to distinguish from warriors.
Another genre taken by Sydney which celebrates warrior-princes is the epic.
While giving the ideal examples given by poetry he turn towards those characters which
are portrayed as warriors like Theagenes, Orlando, Cyrus and Aeneas. When he argues
for poets capacity for depicting ideal characters of human behavior he again comes
towards Cyrus, Aeneas and Ulysses. These repeated clearly indicate his unconscious
effort towards his past days.
Sydney arguments succeed more by metaphor than logic. He gives poetry names
as ‘sweet food’, a ‘food for the tenderest stomach’, a ‘heart ravishing knowledge’. By
giving such praise to poetry he burden the poet only towards the right end, and despite
having an ‘infected will’ he targets the moral capacity of his readers to respond only to
the right kind of excitement. Imagery of sweetness and song ‘sweet charming force’
modulate immediately into imagery of war ‘any other army of words’.
Towards the end of Defense he confesses the lack of discipline as a poet, he says
that he wrote only because he was ‘overmastered by some thoughts’. In the dedication he
confess to handling his work ‘triflingly, ‘adding that it came from a head ‘ not so well
stayed as I would it were’ and having ‘many fancies begotten in it’ that demanded
release.
6. Towards the end of the book, Sidney discusses the status of poetry in
contemporary England. The criticizers of poetry say that it effeminizes nations.
According to Sidney, they say that ‘before poets began to be in price, our nation had set
their hearts’ delight upon action, and not imagination: rather doing things worthy to be
written, than writing things fit to be done’. He replies to this that the great Greek and
Roman heroes achieved victory by reading inspiring poetry. Its an art of ‘notable stirring
of courage”. He believes the other way round that the country’s military weakness is due
to low estimation of poetry. He writes,
“Poesy, thus embraced in all places, should only find in our time a hard welcome
in England…..and therefore decketh our soil few laurels than it was accustomed”.
This ironical criticism on England’s “overfaint quietness” due to lack of military
actions refers to Sidney’s own frustration on his own inactions. His life history tells us
that he often lamented on the Queen Elizabeth’s weak military policies. He says that
poets are now living in quietness who once flourished when ‘Mars’ trumpet blew’. The
Venus would like to be troubled in the net of Mars rather sitting idle at home. This
imagery of goddess of love entangled with the God of war reflects Sidney’s ability to pair
‘seduction with aggression. The appeal of Venus to Mars bonds poetry to the virility of
war. He says that England cannot bear the pain of a pen. Again the pen is compared to a
sword.
As a consequence of low esteem given to poetry in Sidney’s England, ‘men of
real quality’ don’t get a chance to be acknowledged as ‘knights of the order’. The return
of England’s lost heroic tradition is conditioned with respect for poetry. It is possible
only if men from aristocratic background like Sidney use the pen like a sword. This
sword should be used to eliminate the social enervation.
As a conclusion, it can be said that the repeated association of poetry with
military examples and vocabulary shows Sidney’s subtle attempt to revive the chivalry of
England. It may be an unconscious effort but it gives us a glimpse of Sidney’s partiality
towards battleship rather poetry which he calls ‘an ink-wasting toy’. While writing
Defense, he assumes himself as a warrior prince rather than an advocate of this
‘unelected vocation’.