[New-Poetry] FR Leavis examined

[James Cervantes]

"I don't know, mama.  I can't paint and I can't fuck and I'm angry all
the time.  Now I know how a critic must feel." - Ellen Cherry, in
Skinny Legs and All, by Tom Robbins.


On 6/8/06, JforJames at aol.com <JforJames at aol.com> wrote:
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> http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=12217&R=EC6821
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>  Dr. Leavis, I Presume?
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> The man who put 'critic' in 'criticism.'
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> by Brooke Allen
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> 05/22/2006, Volume 011, Issue 34
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> F.R. Leavis
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> Essays and Documents
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> Edited by Ian MacKillop and Richard Storer
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> Continuum, 314 pp., $39.95
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> 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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