Literary
Criticism Q:- Definition
and functions of criticism
What is according to Arnold is the
definition and function of criticism.
Introduction:-
Mathew Arnold was a great Victorian poet-critic. He wrote some poetry before he
turned to criticism. That way, his criticism is the criticism of a man
who had personal experience of what he was writing. He never considered poetry
as something apart from life. To him, it was never ‘Art for Art’s sake’. It had
a serious concern with the art of living itself. It was also criticism of life.
He expects high seriousness form a great literary artist as we find Homer,
Dante and Shakespeare.
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