The following are the questions answered with an average of two pages per answer: 1) How do Augustine, Boethius, Aquinas and Dante represent the relation between word and world? 2) How do Sidney, Pope and Hume go about defining a standard of taste? 3) Johnson says "Shakespeare always makes nature predominant over accident." What does he mean by this statement? 4) Discuss Wordsworth's account of the process of poetic creation. 5) What does Arnold mean by "criticism"? 6) Discuss the role Nietzsche sees for art in civilization. 12.5 pgs. 0 f/c. 11b.
