INTRODUCTION: NEW CRITICISM American New Criticism is named after John Crowe Ransom’s 1941 book The New Criticism. The movement focused on the text of a work of literature and excluded the reader’s response‚ the author’s intentions‚ historical and cultural contexts and moralistic bias from their analysis. It was the equivalent of the new professional criticism established in the emerging discipline of ‘English’ in Britain during the inter-war period. The reasons why it rose to almost hegemonic proportions
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Eliot‚ T. S.‚ in full THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT (b. Sept. 26‚ 1888‚ St. Louis‚ Mo.‚ U.S. – d. Jan. 4‚ 1965‚ London‚ Eng.)‚ American-English poet‚ playwright‚ literary critic‚ and editor‚ a leader of the modernist movement in poetry in such works as The Waste Land (1922) and Four Quartets (1943). Eliot exercised a strong influence on Anglo-American culture from the 1920s until late in the century. His experiments in diction‚ style‚ and versification revitalized English poetry‚ and in a series of critical
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Rabindranath Thakur Rabindranath Thakur‚ anglicized to Tagore pronunciation (help info) (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর) (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941)‚γ[›] sobriquet Gurudev‚δ[›] was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region’s literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive‚ fresh and beautiful verse"‚[2] he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.[3] In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however‚ his "elegant prose
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Robert Lee Frost‚ New England’s cherished poet’s‚ has been called America’s purest classical lyricist and one of the outstanding poets of the twentieth century. He was a modernist poet. During his childhood he thrived in English and Latin classes and discovered a common thread in Theocritus’ and Virgil’s poetry‚ and in the romantic balladry. Frost’s style was influenced by the early romantic poets as we can see the romantic features in his poems and also by the contemporary British poets as Edward
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“Chopin and the Character Piece: Nocturnes‚ Preludes‚ and Ballades.” The transition into the Romantic era of music saw the development of many new characteristics. For the most part‚ the music evolved from established forms‚ genres‚ and musical ideas‚ but there was more emphasis on expression. Harmonic language established by Mozart and Haydn was coloured with dissonances‚ and bolder chord changes. Emphasis shifted from the ideals of Mozart’s consonance and order‚ to the expression and increased
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was beyond all doubt the principal spiritual force in music. This is further evident in "Alabama‚" a riveting elegy for the victims of the infamous Sunday-morning church bombing in Birmingham in 1963. Here‚ as in the early version of his most famous ballad‚ "Naima‚" Coltrane is as spare in phrasing as he is bleak in tone. That tone‚ criticized by many as hard-edged and emotionally impoverished‚ is inseparable from Coltrane’s achievement‚ conveying as it does a sense of absolute purity through the abnegation
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POETRY POEM. N. AN ARRANGEMENT OF WORDS WRITTEN OR SPOKEN‚ TRADITIONALLY A RHYTHMICAL COMPOSITION‚ SOMETIMES RHYMED‚ EXPRESSING EXPERIENCES‚ IDEAS‚ OR EMOTIONS IN A STYLE MORE CONCENTRATED‚ IMAGINATIVE‚ AND POWERFUL THAN THAT OF ORDINARY SPEECH OR PROSE: SOME POEMS ARE IN METER‚ SOME IN FREE VERSE. A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. – ROBERT FROST PROSE…words in their best order. POETRY…the best words in the best order. – SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with
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[pic] “WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AS THE WORSHIPPER OF NATURE” INTRODUCTION There’s nothing quite like poetry for singing a paean to nature. Among the many celebrated nature poets‚ William Wordsworth is probably the most famous. What sets his work apart from others is that his poetry was‚ in fact‚ an act of nature-worship. Wordsworth perceived the presence of divinity and healing in nature‚ the presence of a higher spirit that he considered a `balm’ to weary souls. His poem‚ Tintern Abbey‚ depicts with
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Stylistic Analysis on the Solitary Reaper ’The Solitary Reaper" is one of William Wordsworth’s most famous post-Lyrical Ballads lyrics. It describes the poet’s delight in a young woman’s melancholy song in an unknown language. A highland girl is singing a ’melancholy song’ as she wings a sickle and reaps grain. The song is carried through the hills and valleys and seems to echo all around. To the poet the song seems sweeter even than the song of Nightingale. He does not want anyone to disturb
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According to Contemporary Authors Online‚ Christina Rossetti was a 19th century English writer who was remembered for her literature that was influenced with a societal concern that women were inferior to men in Europe leading up to and during the 19th century (Christina Rossetti). This is the underlying characteristic of Christina Rossetti which makes her important to study in regards to European literature. Christina Rossetti was part of a mock art printer group called the Pre-Raphaelites. According
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