ABADA COLLEGE Marfrancisco,

Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro

E 118
LITERARY CRITICISM

ACTIVITY 1

Directions: Explain each item below regarding “Nature of

Criticism” and “Literary Criticism and Scientific Accuracy”

1. “There is no work of art”, says Scott James, “which is not

preceded by criticism.”
- Everything that people can see, feel, touch, hear, and read is
a work of art and because of people as being a critic in
nature, expect that it will undergoes criticizing because we
are human and we can say anything according what we see and
sense about a thing.
2. Thus, there is no antipathy but close affinity between the critic
and the creative artist.
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3. “Both poet and critic draw their light from the sun of beauty and
truth, and we may be glad of both.” (Grierson)
4. According to Scott James, “The true critic is an ally of the
artist.”
5. A good critic has the same interest at heart as the artist
possesses. His never-failing sympathy and intuition qualify him
to speak on behalf of the artist.
6. Alexander Pope beautifully says, “Both must alike from Heaven
derive their light. These born to judge, as well as those to
write.”
7. According to D. H. Lawrence, criticism can never be a science. In
the first place, criticism is ‘much too personal’, and secondly,
it is concerned with ‘values what science ignores’. “The touch-
stone is emotion, not reason.”

MS. PRINCESS B. KONG, LPT

ABADA COLLEGE Marfrancisco,
Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro

8. A perfect judge will read each work of wit with the same spirit
that its author writ.” (Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism)

MS. PRINCESS B. KONG, LPT