Critical Study of Virginia Woolf

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Influences on Virginia Woolf as a critic. 3. Responsibilities and qualities of critic. 4. Virginia Woolf's poetics of the novel. 5. Her miscellaneous criticism. 6. Limitations and achievements as a critic. 7. Conclusion. Bibliography.

Mrs. Virginia Woolf was a famous novelist, essayist and literary critic. Her popularity as a novelist has shadowed her importance as a literary critic and reviewer, though she was a honest, sensitive, social and moral critic in her well known writings, but major part of her writings was published after her death. Her two essay books were published 1925 and 1932 and Granite and Rainbow in 1958. In 1966-67 probably all her essays contained in six volumes were republished in four volumes as collected essays.

Her novels try to answer that knowing another person is not to know the social or material condition of his life but to understand the way world appears to him. Woolf's novels are poetic, symbolic and popular in the English literary world.

In all her writings creative, integrative perception is a key to better life. The present work Critical Study of Virginia Woolf is a research oriented study of her life time achievements. (jacket)