A. Ideal poet
B. Ideal reader
C. Ideal philosopher
D. Ideal person
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Literary Criticism MCQs
The Essay literary Criticism and Philosophy was published in
A. 1927
B. 1947
C. 1973
D. 1937
✅ The correct answer is option D.
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.
Leavis boldly announced that Literary Criticism is not _____________
A. Psychology
B. History
C. Philosophy
D. Physiology
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Eliot said that the major part of the effort of an author in composing his work is __.
A. Critical labour
B. Critical faculty
C. Creative criticism
D. Workshop criticism
✅ The correct answer is option D.
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.
For Leavis, the reading demanded by poetry is of a different kind from that demanded by ___________.
A. drama
B. essay
C. philosophy
D. science
✅ The correct answer is option C.
“The Function of Criticism” by TS Eliot was a response to
A. Matthew Arnold
B. Dr. Wellek
C. Middleton Murry
D. FR Leavis
✅ The correct answer is option C.
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.
“The business of a literary critic is to attain a peculiar completeness of response” is stated by –
A. F.R. Leavis
B. Middleton Murry
C. Matthew Arnold
D. Rene Wellek
✅ The correct answer is option A.