2022
BA (VI Semester) Examination
ENGLISH
Paper : BENG–610 (M)
( Literary Criticism )
Full Marks : 80
Pass Marks : 35%
Time : Three Hours
Note : 1. Answer all questions.
2. The questions are of equal value.
Unit-I
1. Explain Shelley's defence of poetry in his essay.
Or
Explain Shelley's view, "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world". 16
Unit-II
2. Write a note on Coleridge's primary imagination and secondary imagination in his essay, Biographia Literaria.
Or
Analyse Coleridge's views how poetry provides the scent of human passions, emotions and languages. 16
Unit-III
3. According to Arnold, poetry is concerned with high destiny and for the interpretation of life. Comment. 16
Or
Explain how Arnold justifies that poetry is the criticism of life and it interprets life for us in his essay, The Study of Poetry.
Unit-IV
4. According to Eliot, what are the functions of criticism?
Or
Write a note on Eliot's views on the significance of the study of criticism. 16
Unit-V
5. Every literary work potentially has a historical dimension that produces knowledge in it. Discuss with reference to Trilling's essay.
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Discuss Trilling's judgement of history and moral sensibility in his essay, The Sense of the Past.
