Akhavān-Sāles and Literary Criticism: An Analysis of Akhavan’s views on Literary Criticism Approaches

Reading the critical views of poets with the aim of classifying and analyzing their approaches to literary criticism, while identifying their evaluation criteria in literary criticism, can be used as a criterion for evaluating their works. In addition to being a poet, Akhavān-Sāles had critical views in the field of literary criticism. The authors of this article, due to the special position of Akhavān-Sāles as a poet-critic, have classified and analyzed his theories based on Jacobson chr('39')s theory. Then the approaches and characteristics of criticism were discussed, regarding in his views. In expressing his critical views, Akhavān-Sāles emphasized the four elements of sender, receiver, context, and message. He considered successful poetry to be a poem arising from the poetchr('39')s feeling (emotive function), of social and human subject (referential function), with literary language (poetic function) and the power to influence a wide range of receivers (conative function). In his critical views, Akhavān-Sāles has not fallen into the trap of pure formalism, nor has accepted non-literary poetry. As a result, it can be said that his thorough knowledge of the subject is positive and his subjectivity in criticism could be considered as a negative aspect of approach