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Thomas Stearns Eliot was one of the major poet of the 20h century. He was also an essayist,publisher,playwright and literary and social critic.His essay Tradition and Individual Talent is an attack on certain critical views in Romanticism particularly up on the idea that a poem is primarily an expression of the personality of the poet.Eliot argues that a great poem always asserts and that the poet must develop a sense of the sense  of the pastness of past. 1.How would you like to explain Eliot's concept of Tradition? Do you agree with it?                                 Yes, I agree with Eliot's concept of tradition.Eliot takes the tradition in a positive way as well as in a larger sense. He also points out that following the tradition is not only slavish imitation. The countries and nations try to preserve their tradition as heritage which is essential part of their culture and also handed down from generation to generation. Here one should n

                                                      Herman Northrop Frye was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of 20th century.Northrop Frye developed a theory of literature based on myths and Archetypes. 1. What is Archetypal Criticism? What does the archetypal critic do? In literary criticism the term archetype denotes recurrent designs,pattern of action,character-type,themes and images which are identifiable in a wide variety of works of literature,as well as in myths,dreams and even social rituals. The archetypal critic tries to find this pattern,symbols and myths in present literary work. 2 .What is Frye trying prove by giving an analogy of ' Physics to Nature' and 'Criticism to Literature'? Northrop Frye has given a very unique idea of Archetypal Criticism by comparing the human emotions or human characteristics with the cycle of seasons. Spring The Spring seas

Biographical Information Jane Austen was one of England's foremost novelists.She was born in 16th December,1775 in the Hampshire village of Steventon. She was the second daughter and seventh child in a family of eight- six boys and two girls. Her father the Reverend George Austen   served as the Oxford educated rector for a nearby Anglican Parish. Her father was a great scholar who always encouraged the love of learning in his children. The children of family grew in an environment that stressed learning and creativity. Her elder sister Cassandra who remained the coolest companion throughout her whole life. Both sisters were never married.In order to acquire more formal education along with her sister, Jane were sent to boarding schools during Jane's pre-adolescence.During this time Jane and her sister caught typhus, with Jane nearly succumbing to the illness. After that due to some financial problem they returned to home and lived with the family from that t

      Brief introduction of Marry Shelley  Biographical Information                              Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly was born in Somers Town, London, in 1797. She was the daughter of the two  radical thinkers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft . William Godwin described her as 'singularly bold, somewhat imperious,and active of mind'. Mary Shelley did not receive any formal education but from an early age she received great intellectual stimulus.Her father's house was a meeting point of famous philosophers and poets like William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It was also said that or a kind of anecdotes about her was that as a young girl Marry Shelly used to hide behind a sofa while Coleridge read aloud his poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Which exercised a great influence on her novel Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus. She is also known as the wife of romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelly. In 1816, t