Q. The reading demanded by poetry is different from that demanded by
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
Philosophy
Literary Criticism MCQs and Notes
Q. According to Leavis, philosophic training would benefit the critic by making clear that
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
The two are vastly different
Q. Leavis states that poetry is concrete and that philosophy is
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
Abstract
Q. FR Leavis said the business of the literary critic is
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
All of the above
Q. 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”?
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
FR Leavis
Q. Leavis never proposed to consider __ as a philosophic thinker
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
William Wordsworth
Q. 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
✅ Correct Answer: (D)
An arduous ideal”
Q. The literary critic aims to make fully conscious and articulate the immediate sense of
✅ Correct Answer: (A)
“value that ‘places’ the poem”
Q. The critic’s aim is, first, to realize as sensitively and completely as possible this or that which claims his
✅ Correct Answer: (B)
Attention
Q. F. R. Leavis states, “By the critic of poetry I understand the complete reader: the ideal critic is
✅ Correct Answer: (C)
the ideal reader”