F.R. Leavis

Revaluation

Essays reconsidering and revaluing English literary tradition and merit

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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.

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