Budrewicz 6 – 05.01.12
Exam 9 February 3pm room 2
Budrewicz's part:
3 questions
all the texts read. No questions about authors.
Quote from Othello – comment on it.
How would you define allegory on the basis of bestiary
jealousy, Iago, Othello
Freitag(?) experiment
(drama stages)
Books which may help
Przemysław mroczkowski historia literatury angielskiej
sikorska 'outline history of english literature'
Short history of english literature
Critical history of English literature vol 2
ESSAY ON CRITICISM
Alexander Pope 1688-1744
18th century
classicism, enlightenment (oświecenie) period
reason seen as a tool, not feelings
idea of reforms
Queen Ann
Government, parliament
time full of newspapers, journals
critics on literature were more and more popular
They saw themselves as craftsmen who studied and fallowed the rules
Alexander Pope
he was self educated, he suffered from very ill health, one of the greatest figures in the 18th century.
He translated Ilyad and Odyssey
General qualities needed by critic
Nature
Creating rules in literature
Laws for the critic
False critics
what is desirable in a cricit
Qualities needed in a critic
Pope's essay on criticism has form of a didactic poem
He was only a writer and he was able to prove it can be a profession.
Heroic couplet – 2 rhymed lines in an iambic pentameter (5 iambic feet in each line) unstressed stressed, unstressed stressed unstressed
Poem gives advices concerning being a critic and rules of taste
Key words:
wit
nature
judgement
sense
rules
truth
Nature
There are no mistakes in nature. It's perfect. Nature serves as a model it's representative, universal, it's everything that is permanent. It's beyond human understanding. Nature is divine. It can defend itself.
Learn what's best from ancient poets, on the basis of that form your own judgement
To copy nature is to copy them (ancient poets).
Laws for the critic, examples of false critic, qualities needed for a critic, ideal character of a critic