![]() ![]() While it is true that the critic has understanding of poetry as well as analytical mind, which proves dependable – the poets are not quite without the gift of analytical thinking. Only the best of poets have the right to pass judgments on the merit or defects of poetry, for they alone have experienced the creative process form beginning to end, and they alone can rightly understand it.īoth the above given views are extreme. Whereas dramatists like Ben Jonson is of the view that to ‘judge of poets is only the faculty of poets and not of all poets, but the best’. Some believe that artist should create its art and leave it for critic to pass judgement over it. Thus, since time immemorial, it has been customary to accept the criticism of art from a man who may or may not have been artist himself. In this respect it differs from all other kind of criticism.” The critic of architecture is architecture, of that of gardening is gardner, but that of poet may or may not be a poet. Scott James has rightly observed “To the critics of the arts and especially literature custom has given an independent place. ![]() Similarly, it is absolutely impossible to find out whether an artist came first or a critic. In the same way a hen grows out of an egg and an egg grows out of a hen. The seed grows out of a tree and tree grows out of a seed. This relationship is as illusive as that of the seed and the tree, and the egg and the hen. The relationship between Criticism and Creativity is a very close and it is very difficult to decide which of these two processes came first. discuss critical issues in evaluating tragedy as better form of literature than other.evaluate the importance of Plot and Character and.explain Aristotle’s definition of Tragedy.evaluate Plato’s and Aristotle’s Theory of Mimesis.identify the difference between critical and creative writing.In this unit we will discuss Aristotle’s Poetics, which consists of his views on all forms of literary art, especially tragedy.Īfter reading this chapter, you are expected to learn about: The first objection to his critical views came form his disciple, Aristotle. ![]() They lie scattered in seven of his dialogues, more particularly in The Ion, The Symposium, The Republic and the Laws. He was not a professed critic of literature and his critical observations are not found in any single book. The 4th century BC to which he belonged was an age of inquiry and as such his chief interest was Philosophical investigations, which form the subject of his great works in form of Dialogues. Plato was the most distinguished disciple of Socrates. Plato and Aristotle were such critics who gave guidelines of good literature without themselves being creative writers. The history of literary criticism has witnessed several critics who themselves had not been creative writers. We shall try to understand the role and place given to ‘the critic’ in the field of literary criticism. We shall see how criticism is valued like creative writings. In this unit we shall try to understand the relationship between Criticism and Creativity. How does he distinguish Epic and Tragedy?ġ.12. Is, according to Aristotle, Epic better than tragedy?ġ.8.2. What are the characteristics of tragic hero?ġ.8.1. ![]() Which are the six important part of tragedy?ġ.7.2. How far Catharsis is relevant today?ġ.7.1. What are various interpretations given to the meaning of Catharsis?ġ.6.3. What are various interpretations given to the meaning of Catharsis?ġ.6.2. How does Aristotle distinguish among various fine arts?ġ.5.2. How did he differ in his Theory of Mimesis from his Guru Plato?ġ.5.1. How did he reply to Plato’s Objection?ġ.4.2. What is the difference between criticism and creativity?ġ.4.1. Dilip Barad, [[ | Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar, Gujarat.ġ.2.1. ![]()
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