RIPHAH INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

Department of English
MA English (Linguistics & Literature), 2nd Semester
Midterm Exam, Fall-2020

Literary Criticism II
(ENG-507)

Total marks: 20 (Subjective) Time Allowed: 2 hours

Instructions:
a. Attempt TWO questions.
b. Question # 1 is compulsory.
c. Attempt any ONE of Question # 2 and 3.
d. Provide precise and to-the-point answers.
e. An irrelevant or plagiarized answer will receive no marks.
f. Your answer for each question must not exceed 500 words.

Question. 1: Substantializing your answer by at least five arguments, explain how S. T Coleridge is
superior to William Wordsworth as a critic. (10 Marks)

Question. 2: Explain what W. Wordsworth actually had in his mind when he first attempted to
defend The Lyrical Ballads in his Preface. (10 Marks)

Question. 3: Elaborate why you may call Wordsworth’s Preface to The Lyrical Ballads a failed
attempt to justify his poetic theory. (10 Marks)

***Best of Luck***