A. 1921
B. 1922
C. 1923
D. 1924
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Literary Criticism MCQs
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.
Dr. Wellek has criticized Leavis that his lack of interest in philosophy makes him unfair to the poets of ______________.
A. Victorian poets
B. Romantic poets
C. Elizabethan poets
D. Modern poets
✅ The correct answer is option B.
What did TS Eliot called critics like himself who did not have the ‘inner voice’?
A. Inner deaf mutes
B. Whiggery
C. Fact hunters
D. Lemon- squeezers
✅ The correct answer is option A.
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.
Leavis feels that the best way of presenting theoretical principles is to show then at work in –
A. Factual Criticism
B. Logical Criticism
C. Practical Criticism
D. Constructive Criticism
✅ The correct answer is option C.
What are the chief tools of the critic according to TS Eliot?
A. Comparison and analysis
B. Interpretation and communication
C. Studying and reproduction
D. Fact hunting
✅ The correct answer is option A.
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.
Which of the following according to Leavis, does not invite one to think about and judge?
A. poetry
B. Philosophy
C. criticism
D. reading
✅ The correct answer is option A.
According to TS Eliot, who overlook the capital importance of criticism in the work of creation itself?
A. Middleton Murry
B. Matthew Arnold
C. Clutton Brock
D. Coleridge
✅ The correct answer is option B.