[New-Poetry] FR Leavis examined

[TheOldMole]

Send that one to Logan.

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From: "James Cervantes" <cervantes.james at gmail.com>
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> "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.
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> 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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