Literary Criticism (Part 1)

The group of nineteenth-century French poets who wrote impersonal poetry in reaction to the prevailing romanticism of the first half of the century and who were influenced by the "art for art's sake" doctrine is the

The phrase coined by John Ruskin that denotes any false emotionalism resulting in a too impassioned description of nature is

Early in Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, Iago reveals that "but for [his own] sport and profit," he would never waste time with "such a snipe" as

The controlling image in Othello's assessment of Desdemona, "If I do prove her haggard, / Though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings, / I'd whistle her off and let her down the wind / To prey at fortune," is

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