JUNE-2021
B.A. (VI Semester) Examination
ENGLISH
Paper: BENG-610(M)
(Literary Criticism )
Full Marks : 80
Pass Marks : 35%
Time : Three Hours
Notes: (i) Answer all questions.
(ii) The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the Questions.
UNIT-A
1. Explain how has Shelly defended poetry in his essay, Defence of Poetry. (16)
Or
Appreciate the context in which Shelly says, “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world' (16)
UNIT-B
2. Explain how Coleridge differentiated between Primary imagination and Secondary Imagination in his essay, Biographia Literaria. (16)
Or
Discuss Coleridge’s view on nature and function of poetry as presented in the prescribed chapter of Biographia Literaria (16)
UNIT-C
3. Discuss Arnold’s essay, The Study of Poetry to bring out his important consideration. (16)
Or
Explain how Arnold justifies the statement that Poetry is the criticism of life in his essay, The Study of Poetry. (16)
UNIT-D
4. Why does Eliot reject the ‘Inner Voice’ in his essay, The Function of Criticism? Why does he believe that tradition has a crucial role to play in making an ideal critic? (16)
Or
Discuss Eliot’s important ideas contained in the essay, The Function of Criticism. (16)
UNIT-E
5. Discuss the argument that Trilling offers to support his views that literature is historical in his essay, The Sense of the Past. (16)
Or
Discuss Trilling’s views on the use of history in Criticism. (16)
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