“The greatness of a poet”, Arnold says, “lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to…
“T.S. Eliot” is the tentative attribution of the criticism of Arnold’s application-of-ideas formula. The exact lotion quotation has not been established in a primary text,…
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“The greatness of a poet”, Arnold says,
“lies in his powerful and beautiful
application of ideas to life”. But a
critic pointed out it was “not a happy
way of putting it, as if ideas were a
lotion for the inflamed skin of
suffering humanity”. Who was this
critic ?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer A
“T.S. Eliot” is the tentative attribution of the criticism of Arnold’s application-of-ideas formula. The exact lotion quotation has not been established in a primary text, so “F.R. Leavis”, “David Lodge” and “Allen Tate” cannot be conclusively eliminated from the evidence available. Treat the answer as a lead for source verification, not a verified attribution.
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