• ISBN13: 9788126937394
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: September 14, 2023
• Pages: 132
• Original Price: INR 495.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 310 grams

Although ostensibly only a "primer" meant for beginners, the book offers an excellent practical guideline for the students in understanding and appreciating the real merit of a work. In criticism, forming the correct impression about a work is not enough; one has to justify that impression on the basis of the textual evidence. It is here that the book comes to a student's succour. With innumerable diverse passages and fine analysis Professor Hollingworth offers sincere help by demonstrating what to look for, how to look for and where to look for, in a passage for support and authentication of one's impression. A specimen of Richardsian practical criticism the book is sure to be immensely useful to the students of literature interested in literary criticism.

Gertrude Eleanore Hollingworth, an MA from London University, was a distinguished scholar and an illustrious teacher. As a fine Shakespearean scholar she edited the great bard's Hamlet and Macbeth and her editions are marked by a remarkable combination of lucidity and profundity. The same critical acumen is also evident in her perceptive treatment of Arnold's poems : Sohrab and Rustam, The Scholar Gipsy and Thyrsis. In literary criticism Hollingworth anticipated the American New Criticism in her focus on the text and explication de texte.