Question

Who wrote The Study of Poetry?

• A. T. S. Eliot
• B. Matthew Arnold
• C. F. R. Leavis
• D. John Dryden

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Matthew Arnold

• The Study of Poetry was written by Matthew Arnold.

• It is an essay first published in 1880 as the introduction to T.H. Ward’s anthology The English Poets.

• In this work, Arnold discusses the importance of poetry, his concept of the "touchstone method" for evaluating poetry, and his belief that poetry should replace religion as a source of moral and spiritual guidance.