Literature View And Literature Criticism Of William Somerset Maugham

Literature view and literature criticism of William Somerset Maugham is a main part to him. Literature view express his unique opinion as a writer which is summary of his writing experience and literature criticism is concrete application of literature view. The paper focus on literature view and literature criticism, first define the meaning of literature view and literature criticism, explain the difference between professional commenter and writer in introduction part. Then clarify the main points of his literature view according to Maugham’s literature essay in first part, including release the pain writing can, forms of literature and theme the writer choose influenced by market, entertainment function of literature and authenticity from content and narration mode in first part. The second part criticize some important writers and their works according to Maugham’s literature view, there are criticism on the basis of biography, criticism by authenticity and criticism with enjoyment. Lastly, summarize the literature view and literature criticism of Maugham and give a simple comment by myself.