New Criticism: Who's Who? Quiz
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around New Criticism? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Which critics helped kick start the ideas behind New Criticism?
T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound
Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault
Raymond Williams and Terry Eagleton
Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper
Q. Who coined the term "the heresy of paraphrase," and argued against paraphrasing poems?
William K. Wimsatt
Cleanth Brooks
Freud
Dr. Seuss
Q. What did I.A. Richards do to study how people interpret literature?
Read the classics.
Studied the political and biographical history of all his favorite authors.
Took the names of authors off poems, and asked students to analyze them.
Stood on his head.
Q. Which New Critics said "Judging a poem is like judging a pudding or a machine"?
Allen Tate and John Crowe Ransom
William K. Wimsatt and Monroe C. Beardsley
I.A. Richards and William Empson
Marx and Engels
Q. What did many New Critics do, besides closely read poems?
Wrote poems.
Directed films.
Translated novels.
Enjoyed scuba-diving.