Question

Moralist criticism is a literary approach used to judge literary works according to moral rather than formal principles.
Moralist criticism is a literary approach used to judge literary works according to moral rather than formal principles.

Answer 1

Answer:

MORALISTIC APPROACH – A tendency—rather than a recognized school—within literary criticism to judge literary works according to moral rather than formal principles. – Judging literary works by their ethical teachings and by their effects on readers

Explanation:

Literature that is ethically sound and encourages virtue is praised – Literature that misguides and corrupts is condemned.

3. Plato – Banished poets from Republic for fear that he might spread immorality and destabilize the country

4. Horace – Studied how Poetry could be used to promote morality in his Ars Poetica

5. Sir Philip Sidney – Praised the role of the poet in purifying the imagination, which the historian and the philosopher were capable of.

6. Dr. Johnson – Was a stern upholder of morality and attacked Shakespeare for his slip shod treatment of moral values.

7. Matthew Arnold – Great poetry is marked by high seriousness and true criticism pays attention to what a poem says than to how it says.

8. Humanists (order, restraint, discipline) – Major intellectual movement of the Renaissance. – Proponents of humanism believed that a body of learning, humanistic studies (studia humanitatis), consisting of the study and imitation of the classical culture of ancient Rome and Greece, would produce a cultural rebirth after what they saw as the decadent and “barbarous” learning of the Middle Ages. – Humanism was characterised by lots of creativity and interest in the Arts and Humanities brought about by increased scientific knowledge, a renewed approach to ancient Greek-Latin texts

9. Humanists – Neo Humanists – Renaissance Humanists

10. Neo Humanism –Opposed Naturalism –Opposed Romanticism –Moral earnestness & aesthetic sensitivity

11. 20th Century Critical Movement – Paul Elmer More- Shelburne Essays – Irving Babbit- Literature and the American College

12. Neo Humanists – Norman Foerster – Harry Hayden Clark – G.R. Elliot – Robert Shafer – Frank Jewett Mather – Gorham Munson – Stuart Sherman Pratt

13. Religious Humanism – T.E. Hulme – Religion & morality – T.S. Eliot- Christian Humanist – Edmund Fuller – Hyatt Waggoner

14. Traditional concern for the moral ends of literature – F.R. Leavis – Yvor Winters – Marxists- The Social Approach – Allen Tate – John Crowe Ranson