(2) (UZ) Write a critical note on the salient features of F. Leavis' essay "Keats".
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Critical Notes
F.R Leavis believed that poetry came so naturally to John Keats that it looked like fruits growing on a tree. He agrees to Keats's opinion that some problems in this world can never be solved by us. Imagination is under control of God and it is better for human beings that they do not try to understand such things. Always expressing his opinions with severity, Leavis believed that literature should be closely related to criticism of life and that it is therefore a literary critic's duty to assess works according to the author's and society's moral position. Leavis' criticism falls into two phases. In the first, influenced by T.S. In his reply, Leavis expresses h s views on the discipline of literary criticism, and pleads that by making precise discriminations, he has advanced theory, "even if I haven't done the the orizing." Leavis says that literary criticism is a "distinct and separate discipline", quite different from philosophy and its.