English Literature and Linguistics

Wordsworth's Concept of Nature Wordsworth, the “highest priest of Nature,” has a great devotion in Nature, the mother of mankind. According to him, “Nature is the best teacher for mankind.” He is one of the most world’s loving thoughtful poets of Nature. It has become now, a common–place of criticism to call Wordsworth as a poet of Nature, indeed, there is no other word which can more comprehensively expresses the inspiration and spirit of his poetry. The spirit of nature has an individuality of Wordsworth’s own, its own conscious will and mind. He calls the nature as: ‘’Wisdom and spirit of the Universe, Thou soul that art the Eternity of thought.’’ Many a poetic-souls, before and since Wordsworth, has fallen under the spell of nature’s charm and beauty. Spenser, Milton, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, and Byron, to name only a few about Wordsworth’s originality, Compton Rickett points out: “It was Wordsworth’s aim as a poet to seek for beauty in meadow; woodland and the mountain a...

past papers of MA English part 1 Literary Criticism Annual 2014 Q3:"It is not ,the greatness of intensity of  emotions,the components,but the intensity of the artistic process,the pressure,so to speak,under which the fusion takes place,that counts." Explain this statement in the light of Eliot's essay"Tradition and the Individual Talent." Supplementary 2014 Q3: Discuss with the reference to T.S.Eliot's Tradition and the Individual Talent. Annual 2015 Q3: Is it justified to call Eliot's essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent" a manifesto of Eliot's criticism? Supplementary 2015 Q5: Critically analyze Eliot's theory of impersonality with reference his essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent." Annual 2016 Q3: Is it not the greatness, the intensity of emotions ,the components , but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure,so to speak,under which the fusion takes place, that counts." Explains this ...

Past paper of Prose Bertrand Russell PU UOS 2003 to 2018 Mk Bhutta Explain Russell’s ideas in the superior virtue of the obsessed. (PU 2018) 3. What safeguards does Russell suggest against a teacher's becoming a tool in the hands of governments and how far are they adequate? 2003 7. Which of the prose writers included in your course is your favourite, and why? 2003 5. Do you think Bertrand Russell's proposal for the establishment of a world government is desirable, or even tenable? 2004 6. In how many ways have ideas concerned with moral and politics, according to Bertrand Russell, helped mankind? 2004 3. YEAR 2005 4. Affirm or refute Russell's bid to justify the winning of happiness in this raving, reeling age of ours. 4. YEAR 2006 4. Can ideas, good or bad, be so effective as Bertrand Russell has claimed? Make out a case for or against in the light of his 'Unpopular Essays'. 5. YEAR 2007 3. Even when theoretic and imaginative, Russell never departs fro...

In ‘Ideas that have Harmed Mankind’ Russell scans the Evil Passions of human beings: Man feels delight in seeing others in sufferings as reflected in: Witch burning, beating of lunatics, beating children & wives for moral good, burning before sentence of death, Fighting wars on idealistic heroic & patriotic base, opposition to anaesthetics, human sacrifice for fertility of fields, Christian religious duty to butcher the loser’s tribe completely down to their sheep, fanning fears about after death- pictures of tortures. Then Russell scans the Im-Moral Ideas as: envy, jealousy, pride (leads to myths about superiority of class sex (men over women) race nation & religion (Chosen people of God) ), selfishness, human greed, believe that we all are sinners, self-importance, absolute certainty on allusions (chosen instruments of God to conquer the world as Roman, Nazis, Marxists, catholic and Muslims, having superior heaven, butchered soldier direct to Heaven, godl...