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Lecture Literary criticism - Lecture 25: Essay in Criticism

If a choice be made among these essays ,which are all worthy of study ,we would suggest.The study of poetry,Wordsworth,Byron,Thomas Gray,Shelley,Keats,Milton and Emerson .Of these The study of Poetry needs a detailed analysis.The main arguments of the essay may be summed up as follows. | Essay in Criticism If a choice be made among these essays ,which are all worthy of study ,we would suggest.The study of poetry,Wordsworth,Byron,Thomas Gray,Shelley,Keats,Milton and Emerson .Of these The study of Poetry needs a detailed analysis.The main arguments of the essay may be summed up as follows According to Mathew Arnold the future of poetry is immense because poetry is capable of higher uses.Its main function is to interpret life for us ,to console us and to sustain us Without poetry our science will appear incomplete and most of what passes with us for Religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.William Wordsworth has called poetry the impassioned expression which is the countenance of science.He has also called poetry the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge In poetry as a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty the spirit of our race will find its consolation and the power of criticism of . | Essay in Criticism If a choice be made among these essays ,which are all worthy of study ,we would suggest.The study of poetry,Wordsworth,Byron,Thomas Gray,Shelley,Keats,Milton and Emerson .Of these The study of Poetry needs a detailed analysis.The main arguments of the essay may be summed up as follows According to Mathew Arnold the future of poetry is immense because poetry is capable of higher uses.Its main function is to interpret life for us ,to console us and to sustain us Without poetry our science will appear incomplete and most of what passes with us for Religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.William Wordsworth has called poetry the impassioned expression which is the countenance of science.He has also called poetry the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge In poetry as a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty the spirit of our race will find its consolation and the power of criticism of life.The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming sustaining and delighting us as nothing else can If we conceive such high destinies of poetry we must also set our standards for poetry high since poetry is to be capable of fulfilling such high destinies poetry must be of a higher order of excellence while reading poetry consistently a sense for the best the really excellent and of the strength and joy to be drawn from it should be present in our minds and should govern our estimate of what we read. This is the real estimate of poetry based on the standard of poetic excellence While judging the excellence of poetry we should be aware of two other kinds of estimates the historic estimate and the personal estimate both of which are fallacious.It is just possible that a poet may be very important from the view point of development of literature but his work lacks the necessary qualities which make excellent poetry It is also possible that a poet or a poem appeal to us on .