Literary Criticism Write an essay on the New Critics and New Criticism of the twentieth century.

Literary Criticism “Tension in poetry” ()

Allen Tate (1899-1979)

Ø Write an essay on the New Critics and New Criticism of the twentieth century.

v Introduction:-         

            New Criticism, born and nurtured during the late twenties and early thirties of the present century, are in sharp reaction to Sociological or Marxian criticism which regarded a litterateur a product of the society in which he lived.

            It put the theory of inspiration off the gear. It assumes a close and causative relationship between society and literature and between society and the writer. It is the stress on textual criticism which has made it new. Otherwise there is nothing new in it. It had its origin in the writings of T. E. Hulme; but it is now mainly an American movement. The term was first used by J. E. Spingam. Its chief exponents in America are Kenneth Burke, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Richard Blackmur, Cleanth Brooks, etc. In England its leading representatives are I. A. Richards, T. S. Eliot, F. R. Leavis, William Empson, etc.


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