T.S. Eliot

Question 1

the objective of criticism acc to Eliot

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criticism has only one end- i.e., “elucidation of works of art and the correction of taste.

Question 2

TS Eliot – THE FUNCTION OF CRITICISM is a response to

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Murray’s Romanticism and criticism

Question 3

TS called inner voice

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Whiggery

Question 4

TS ridicules whom in THE FUNCTION OF CRITICISM

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Mathew Arnold

Question 5

TS opposes what about critical and creative

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that both are separate

Question 6

critical writing cannot be __________

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creative

Question 7

He considers a______________ to be the most important quality of a critic.

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highly developed sense of the fact

Question 8

workshop criticism’, i.e

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. criticism by a person who practices creative art himself is most valuable

Question 9

______________ to be the chief tools of a critic that should be used with care and intelligence

Answer 9

comparison and analysis

Question 10

critics like_______ and _________ corrupt by offering opinions and fancy

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Coleridge, Goethe

Question 11

Eliot also opposes ‘l____________’ critics, i.e. the critics who try to squeeze too many meanings from the text.

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lemon squeezer

Question 12

T.S. Eliot used the term objective correlative in the essay

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Hamlet and His Problems

Question 13

Who coined the term Objective Correlative

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Washington Allson

Question 14

Metaphysical Poets written as a review of

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J.C Grierson anthology metaphysical lyrics and poems of the 17 century

Question 15

Samuel Johnson had clubbed all the metaphysical poets together in the

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Life of Abraham Cowley

Question 16

Why is metaphysical poetry not good acc of Samuel johnson

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because they yoke together heterogeneous ideas with violence.

Question 17

T.S Eliot liked metaphysicals?

Answer 17

Yes, sure.

Question 18

Unification of sensibility

and disassociation of sensibility

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elizabethan and jacobean writer-two dissimilar images and fuse different ideas- wow fantastico!
Restoration, enlightenment, romantic, victorian- they could not do it- bleh!
Modern period- the unification of sensibilities

Question 19

Milton and Dryden for T.S. Eliot -

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Milton and Dryden were the masters of the language but not the master of the soul

Question 20

T.S. for Donne

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Every thought was like an experience

Question 21

Theory of impersonality

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poet engages in a “continual surrender of himself” to the vast order of tradition, artistic creation.
The mature poet is viewed as a medium, through which tradition is channelled and elaborated.

Question 22

the sacred wood was published in

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1920

Question 23

Hamlet and his problems was written in

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1919

Question 24

TS criticizes _________ and _____________ in Hamlet

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Gothe and Coleridge

Question 25

Eliot names three sources on which Shakespeare is believed to have based his play________________, ________________, and a version of the play performed in Germany during Shakespeare’s lifetime

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: Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, The Ur-Hamlet

Question 26

TS appreciates ____________ in Hamlet…

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Macbeth

Question 27

Tradition and individual talent published in

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1919

Question 28

Tradition and individual talent published in _______

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1919, the egoist

Question 29

Analogy used in Traditiona and Individual talent

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The analogy was that of the catalyst. When the two gases previously mentioned are mixed in the presence of a filament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected; has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

Question 30

The analogy used in Traditional and Individual talent

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The analogy was that of the catalyst. When the two gases previously mentioned are mixed in the presence of a filament of platinum, they form sulfurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless, the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected; it has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

Question 31

How many essays did TS Eliot write

Answer 31

6
Tradition and Individual Talent
Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century. London: L. and Virginia Woolf, 1927.
On Poetry and Poets. London: Faber and Faber, 1957.
The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. London Menthuen, 1950.
Selected Essays. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1950.
The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry. Ed. Ronald Schuchard. London: Faber and Faber, 1993.

Question 32

Theory of impersonality was given in which essay

Answer 32

Tradition and Individual Talent

Question 33

Tradition and Individual Talent, Eliot said tradition is

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embued in simultaneous order

Question 34

Eliot called the developing canon of work

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the mind of Europe

Question 35

impersonal theory is

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continuous surrender of oneself

Question 36

artistic creation is a process of _______________

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depersonalization

Question 37

Great work of poetry does not express the ___________ of the poet

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emotion

Question 38

“Shakespeare acquired more essential history from ______________ than most men could from the whole British Museum.”

Answer 38

Plutarch