Critical essays (8 Ergebnisse)

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Like New. Reprinted. 249 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. © 1952. 307 pp. Solidly and tightly bound copy and dust jacket with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Dust jacket torn in some places. Synopsis: F. R. Leavis was the chief editor of Scrutiny, which between 1932 and 1953 had some claim on being the most influential literary journal in the English-speaking world. The Common Pursuit is a selection of Leaviss essays from Scrutiny, including his robust defence of Milton against T. S. Eliot, his deeply-felt engagement with Shakespeare, and his severe strictures on attempts to import sociology and political activism into the study of literature. The title of the book comes from a passage in Eliots The Function of Criticism, in which the poet argues that the critic must engage in the common pursuit of true judgment. For Leavis, this meant a strenuous insistence on discriminatory criticism - clear statements about what is good and morally mature and admirable, and equally clear condemnation of what is trivial. The Common Pursuit, with its controversial judgments of Bunyan and Auden, Swift and Forster, remains as challenging now as it did in 1952, and it is easy to see why Leavis - who was never offered a professorship by Cambridge University - held such sway over the study of English literature in his time.…

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mass market paperback. Zustand: acceptable; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED12mo; 387 pages; acceptable mass market paperback; heavy chip to face cover; scuffs to face cover; tips bumped; slight nicks to cover edges; foxing top edge; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.…

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Good. Paperback (tips rubbed/edges worn) 245pp name to half title, small ink spot to fore-edge affecting some dozen leaves else neat tight and clean. *Critical essays including by T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Charles Lamb and many others. 1 volume. Hardcover.

SIGNED BY KAREL APPEL, oblong quarto, blue cloth boards, yellow lettering to spine, blind stamp illus to front board, illus full title page, 191pp, illus/photos, VG (light discolouration/soiling to board edges, light foxing to page edges, gift inscription in ink to fep, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, sl cracking to some gutters sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing). …

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Inscribed by translator. Text in English and Japanese. 194 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 21 cm Contents: The surgery room -- One day in spring -- Osen and Sokichi. Inscribed by Author(s).