TAILIEUCHUNG - Lecture Literary criticism - Lecture 27: Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold was a man of letters ,who became a literary critic by accident, he was mainly interested in educational, political and theological subjects The few works of pure literary criticism that he has to his credit are the by products of his genius. | Matthew Arnold Limitations Matthew Arnold was a man of letters ,who became a literary critic by accident, he was mainly interested in educational, political and theological subjects The few works of pure literary criticism that he has to his credit are the by products of his genius Oxford professorship gave him incentive for writing literary criticism though he was selected for this post not for his literary criticism but of his poetry This is evident from the tone in which he speaks of literary criticism he claims to write criticism literature for him was a criticism of life and a critic had to be a critic both of life and literature Pure literary criticism was not his forte, whenever he speaks of literary criticism or the critic he prefixed a derogative and speaks of mere literary criticism Arnold was not a scientific critic he was much of a moralist He thinks too much of the uses of literature and too little of its pleasures This moralistic tendency in Arnold made T. S. Eliot .

• Ngôn ngữ học
• Literary Theory
• Literary criticism
• Lecture Literary criticism
• Literary work criticism
• The art of judging
• Wordsworth’s theory of poetry
• Theory of poetic diction
• Theory of Poetry
• Purposes of literaly criticism
• Peloponessian war
• Plato’s argument against poetry
• Aristotle’s poetics
• Quantitative elements of tragedy
• Samuel johnshon
• Paradise lost
• Epic poetry
• Paradise regained
• Samuel Johnson
• Classical criticism
• The lyrical ballade
• Biographia literaria