F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography - Hardcover

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F.R. Leavis (1895-1978), English literary critic, educationalist and thinker, possessed one of the most formidable, incisive and challenging minds of his age. His influence on the critical tradition has been enormous: in works such as New Bearings on English Poetry, Culture and Environment, The Great Tradition and The Common Pursuit, along with the quarterly journal Scrutiny, which he founded and edited, he fought against literary dilettantism and set new standards for criticism.
Leavis was no stranger to controversy: although he had no personal animus against those whose work he analysed, the forthrightness of his approach could not help but stir up debate, often heated, This occurred most famously in his criticism of C.P. Snow's 'Two Cultures', which sparked a controversy that had nationwide repercussions and even reached Europe and the USA.
For Leavis, literature was a criticism of life - the most effective way of training intelligence and sensibility - and he emphasised literature as a discipline of thought, as a vitalising force. Behind his authoritative critiques lie both a preoccupation with artistic values and a moral concern of the most profound and complex kind. His writings amount to a reinterpretation not only of English literature, but of the criteria and ethos implicit in the business of literary criticism itself.

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