Brief Questions: Literature and Society 

• What responds comfortably to the undirected formula?

• What did the writer have no difficulty in?

• What does Mr. Eliot’s early prose emphasize?

• Who formulated the idea of Tradition?

• Where did the Augustan tradition originate?

• What was closely associated with the code of Good Form in the Augustan Age?

• What was the Queen Anne period confident of?

• Whom does Leavis consider a genius in the late eighteenth century?

• What did Blake essentially do?

• What was the nature of Blake’s reversal?

• What did not make Blake self-sufficient?

• What was Bunyan’s aim in The Pilgrim’s Progress?

• What did Christian ask Faithful?

• What did Faithful answer?

• How did the Southern Appalachians acquire their culture?

• What does Bunyan himself show?

• How do Blake and Wordsworth differ?

• What happened after Wordsworth’s death?

• What can only trained familiarity with literature bring?

• When will social and political thinking lose its power?

• What are the “other things” present in literary history and criticism?

• What did the Romantic critical tradition stress?

• How does the Marxist approach to literature appear?

• What is The Pilgrim’s Progress?

• What should the poet be alert to?

• Who wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress?

• What did the Romantic poets emphasize, according to Leavis?

• What was Eliot’s early prose directed against?

• What does Leavis call the Romantic critical tradition?

• Whom does Leavis regard as a genius in the late eighteenth century?

• What is Marxist literature?

• Who was John Bunyan?

• Why does Leavis consider the phrase “The Romantic attitude” misleading?