Major figures of New Criticism include I.
More and more of late years has the old education by means of the humanities beenbroken down, and instead of it we see substituted a sort of vocational training. Childrenare now taught to do, where, in the older systems, they were taught to think. It is as ifwe had learnt to distrust what we cannot see, to demand an immediate tangible result forthe outlay of preparation. This is perhaps largely due to our national temper. We arealways in a hurry. But does this constant haste produce the results desired? 'Evolution,not revolution, is the order of development,' says Mr. Hughes, in his book on comparativeeducation, and education is a process requiring much time. Nature cannot be hurried; thereis no such thing as cramming possible to her methods. A congested curriculum results inthe proper assimilation of no one subject, and what can we think of a primary school,boasting only one teacher, in which children were taught seventeen subjects, with fifteenminutes given to each subject, as was the case some years ago in a school which came undermy observation.
After Bakhtin: Essays on Fiction and Criticism.
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William Wordsworth's "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" gives a step-by-step look at the awe-inspiring beauty of a London sunrise, whereas William Blake's "London" shows the dreary ugliness of London life by taking a stroll down London's streets....
Critical Essays on William Wordsworth - George H. Gilpin
What makes the child think that nobody would do thus and so, or that nobody would talkin such and such a way? Partly his knowledge of life as he has lived it, of course. Thoughhe has lived a very small life and his experiences have necessarily been few, yet throughthe life of his imagination he has been able to live much more, he has gained a conceptionof life far beyond anything that he has ever experienced.
Wordsworth: A Collection of Critical Essays (20th …
In his renewal of tradition Wordsworth intertwined the form of elegy with that of landscape, combining it with "Cowper's feelings for the picturesque and Akenside's pre-romantic sensibility." In choosing to work with this type of genre, he worked tirelessly to incorporate Milton's elegy with landscape and nature.
William Wordsworth - Literary Criticism Online
Ahmed, Soheil. Addresses three arguments in Wordsworth's poetics: the theorization of tautology, the definition of the poet, and the relationship between thoughts and feelings. 24 (2001).
