With close reference to The Anxiety of Influence and ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’‚ compare and contrast Bloom’s and Eliot’s views on literary influence. Support your arguments with apposite literary examples. Literary critics have always recognized the ‘tension between the uniqueness of artistic creation and the awareness of tradition‚ and the tension between the acknowledgment of literary influence and its rejection’. Nowadays‚ writers are judged according to their originality and uniqueness
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Autobiography‚ Memoir‚ Spiritual autobiography * Biography * Diaries and Journals * Electronic literature * Erotic literature * Fable‚ Fairy tale‚ Folklore * Fiction o Adventure novel o Children’s literature o Comic novel o Crime fiction + Detective fiction o Fantasy (for more details see Fantasy subgenres; fantasy literature) o Gothic fiction (initially synonymous with horror) o Historical fiction o Horror o Medical novel o Mystery fiction o Philosophical novel o Political fiction
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CLASSICAL BACKGROUND GREEK Background: Mythology‚ Heroic Age‚ Epic‚ Lyric (The Four Schools)‚ Tragedy‚ Comedy. Poetry Prose Drama Homer = Iliad Aristotle=Poetics Sophocles= King Oedipus‚Antigone Odyssey Plato =Republic Aeschylus
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‘I don’t even like rhythm‚ assonance‚ all that stuff. You just go on your nerve.’ – Frank O’Hara (1959) One can’t be sure how far back we need to recede to enter the realm of the ‘traditional’‚ nor precisely how we would recognise it when we arrived there. Nevertheless‚ I see ‘tradition’ as broadly framed by the rules of the past; norms which its adherents feel compelled – or indeed willing – to follow. And yet‚ when W. C. Williams argued ‘I have never been one to write by rules‚ even by
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c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was a playwright‚ poet‚ and literary critic of the seventeenth century‚ whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours. He is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598)‚ Volpone‚ or The Foxe (1605)‚ The Alchemist (1610)‚ and Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedy (1614)‚ and for his lyric poetry; he is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist‚ after William Shakespeare
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beginning and end of the manuscript. The ‘Battle of Maldon’ poses a challenge to scholars as there are two different types of elegies which include a heroic elegy and a religious elegy. These elegies are interconnected together throughout the poem. The beginning of the poem determines the mood and feeling within the poem. Byrthnoth‚ the leader of the
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This article is about the art form. For other uses‚ see Poetry (disambiguation). Literature Major forms Novel Poem Drama Short story Novella Genres Comedy Drama Epic Erotic Nonsense Lyric Mythopoeia Romance Satire Tragedy Tragicomedy Media Performance (play) Book Techniques Prose Poetry History and lists Outline of literature Glossary of terms History (modern) Books Writers Literary / Poetry awards Discussion Criticism Theory Sociology Magazines Literature portal v t e "Poem"
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Techniques of Appreciating Poetry What is poetry? * Poetry is the creativity of a person’s imagination. * It is nothing but rhythmical‚ imaginative language expressing the invention‚ taste‚ thought‚ passion‚ and insight of the human soul. * Like any other literary work‚ poetry needs to be understood to be appreciated. * The writer writes for a reason. * The purpose may be to evoke emotion‚ inform‚ define‚ represent something of the world or life‚ and to entertain. * Whatever
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lit·er·a·ture (ltr--chr‚ -chr) noun. 1. The body of written works of a language‚ period‚ or culture. 2. Imaginative or creative writing‚ especially of recognized artistic value:"Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity" (Rebecca West). 3. The art or occupation of a literary writer. 4. The body of written work produced by scholars or researchers in a given field:medical literature. 5. Printed material: collected all the available literature on
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* History of Neo-Classical Age:- 1. The Age of Neo-Classical in English Literature. 2. Neo-Classical can be divided into three parts. 3. Characteristic of the Neo-Classical Age. 4. Poetry. 5. Court Poets. 6. Satiric Poets. 7. Some poets of Neo-classical Age‚ -Mathew Prior -Alexander Pope -James Thomson -Edward Young -William Collins -Thomas Gray -Robert Burns -John Dryden
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