A. Imagination
B. Attention
C. Thoughts
D. Enthusiasm
✅ The correct answer is option B.
8465. The literary critic aims to make fully conscious and articulate the immediate sense of
A. “value that ‘places’ the poem”
B. “value that ‘situates’ the poem”
C. “value that ‘modifies’ the poem”
D. “value that ‘decodes’ the poem”
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8462. Leavis states, “But it is to be note that the improvement we ask for is of the critic, the critic as critic, and to count on it would be to count on the attainment of
A. A glorious task”
B. A perfect balance”
C. An ideal task”
D. An arduous ideal”
✅ The correct answer is option D.
8459. Leavis never proposed to consider __ as a philosophic thinker
A. William Wordsworth
B. William Blake
C. PB Shelly
D. Dr. Wellek
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8496. Who said, “Poetry must be in serious relation to actuality, it must have a firm grasp of the actual, of the object, it must be in relation to life”?
A. William Wordsworth
B. Matthew Arnold
C. TS Eliot
D. FR Leavis
✅ The correct answer is option D.
8493. FR Leavis said the business of the literary critic is
A. To have a coherent response to commentary
B. To be on guard against abstracting things
C. To be on guard against generalization
D. All of the above
✅ The correct answer is option D.
8490. Leavis states that poetry is concrete and that philosophy is
A. The same
B. Abstract
C. Disinterested
D. Ephemeral
✅ The correct answer is option B.
8487. According to Leavis, philosophic training would benefit the critic by making clear that
A. The two are vastly similar
B. The two are vastly different
C. Philosophy is needed to be a critic
D. The two are complementary
✅ The correct answer is option B.
8484. The reading demanded by poetry is different from that demanded by
A. Philosophy
B. History
C. Science
D. Law
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8448. Leavis asserts that words in poetry demands _____ responsiveness.
A. Disinterested
B. Partial
C. Complete
D. Voluntary
✅ The correct answer is option C.