F.R. Leavis
Leavis was the most influential and controversial literary critic in the history of Cambridge English, insisting that great literature promotes a quality of lived experience. The Great Tradition prescribed a canon and a method that dominated English literary study for decades.
Works
- The Great TraditionLiterary criticism establishing the English novel as serious high art
- RevaluationEssays reconsidering and revaluing English literary tradition and merit
- The Common PursuitCollection of literary essays examining important works and movements
- New Bearings in English PoetryLiterary criticism on modernist poetry and twentieth-century poetic innovation
- D.H. Lawrence: NovelistLiterary biography and criticism of D.H. Lawrence's novels