Course Contents

Introduction Aristotle. Background and socio- political context of Plato and Aristotle writings. Plato and Aristotle idea of imitation and classicism Imitation common Principles of the Arts of poetry, object, manner and medium of imitation Aristotle’s idea Definition of tragedy and its Characteristics Aristotle plot is soul of tragedy. Characteristics of good plot. Organic unity, wholeness, probability, peripetia and anagnorsis etc Aristotle’s ideal tragic hero and discussion of hamartia Catharsis and its diverse interpretation Criticism on Aristotle’s concepts in poetics Comparison and contrast of Classicism and Romanticism Words worth’s concepts of poetry and poetic diction S.T Coleridge and his Biographia Literaria’s concern with form of poetry, imagination, fancy and metrical forms. text of chapter 13 S.T Coleridge and his Biographia Literaria’s Chapter 17 S.T Coleridge and his Biographia Literaria’s Chapter 18 T.S Eliot and Tradition and individual Talent Metaphysical Poets. His term tradition, simultaneous order , historical timelessness, fusion of past and present , present temporality. individual talent. A poet must embody the whole of the literature of Europe from Homer while simultaneously expressing his contemporary environment. T.s Eliot impersonal theory of poetry. Poet’s continuous surrender of himself to the vast order of tradition. Depersonalization. Mature poet is viewed as medium through which tradition is channeled and elaborated T.S.Eliot: an analysis of objective correlative. And importance of metaphysical poets.

Course Learning Outcomes

The student will be able to: • To develop understanding of historical trends of literary criticism • To develop comprehension of literary principles of Classicism, Romanticism and modernism • To analyze Aristotle’s classic principles of literary genres and characteristics of tragedy • To analyze S.T Coleridge and Wordsworth’s poetic theory of romantic poetry and poetic diction • To familiarize with major characteristics of T.S. Eliot’s literary Criticism as foundation of modernism