[New-Poetry] FR Leavis examined

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Dr. Leavis,  I Presume?  
The man who put 'critic' in 'criticism.'   
by Brooke Allen  
05/22/2006, Volume 011, Issue 34   
F.R. Leavis  
Essays and Documents  
Edited by Ian MacKillop and Richard Storer   
Continuum, 314 pp., $39.95  
F.R. LEAVIS (1895-1978) might not have been the most  influential literary 
critic of the 20th century--that title would probably go to  T.S. Eliot, whose 
rather slight output of literary essays made a  disproportionate impact on the 
intellectual world--but within academia his  effect was incalculable. Leavis's 
career, which lasted from the 1930s to the  '70s, coincided with the creation 
of "English" as a subject in British  universities and the 
professionalization of literary  studies. 

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