Paper 502 (A Brief History of Literary Criticism)

Who among the following defended poetry from the attack of the Puritans -

• Aristotle

• Sidney

• Wordsworth

• Arnold

Who emphasizes upon the idea of “high seriousness” in poetry :

• Dryden

• Sidney

• Wordsworth

• Arnold

The “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads” was first published in:

• 1798

• 1800

• 1802

• 1815

"Tradition and the Individual Talent" was first published in which magazine:

• The Egoist

• Freeman

• The Wanderer

• Greenwood

According to Arnold which of the following is not one of the ‘laws of poetic truth’:

• Seriousness

• Universal theme

• External action

• Imagination

Who banished poets from his ideal state:

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Sidney

• Dryden

Aristotle’s “Poetics” basically focuses on:

• Comedy

• Tragedy

• Epic

• Lyric

To whom the aim of poetry is “to teach and delight”

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Sidney

• Dryden

For Wordsworth the function of poetry is to give:

• Joy  

• Happiness

• Catharsis

• Pleasure

To whom ‘Poetry is an escape from emotion and personality”

• Dryden

• Wordsworth

• Arnold

• T.S. Eliot