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Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol 8. 1939-40 F. R. Leavis

Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol 8. 1939-40 By F. R. Leavis

Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol 8. 1939-40 by F. R. Leavis


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Scrutiny was first issued quarterly from Cambridge between 1932 and 1953, the principal editor throughout being Dr Leavis. It is now recognized as a formative influence on English intellectual and cultural life worthy to rank with the great reviews of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol 8. 1939-40 Summary

Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol 8. 1939-40 by F. R. Leavis

Scrutiny was first issued quarterly from Cambridge between 1932 and 1953, the principal editor throughout being Dr Leavis. It is now recognized as a formative influence on English intellectual and cultural life worthy to rank with the great reviews of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This reissue is of the 1963 combined set, including a final volume containing an important Retrospect by Dr Leavis and a substantial analytical index. Scrutiny offers an almost complete critical history of English literature from Chaucer to the mid-twentieth century. Medieval literature, Shakespeare, the seventeenth-century poets, Pope, Dryden, Johnson, the great romantics, the Victorians, and nearly all the important modern writers are seriously examined. Many of the articles have become classics, and resulted in revisions of previously accepted views. An important feature of Scrutiny, still of great interest, is the book review section, where many of the important books of the time, and some of the pretentious ones too, were reviewed as they appeared.

Table of Contents

Volume 8 No. 1 June 1939: The American Cultural Scene (II) Criticism H. B. Parkes; The Ideas of Machiavelli Grattan Freyer; Classics and Education: A Note H. A. Mason; Marlowe's 'Dr Faustus,' James Smith; Edmund Rubbra and Symphonic Form W. H. Mellers; Comments and Reviews; The Background of Twentieth-Century Letters, reviews by Q. D. Leavis; The Central All-Connecting Study, Interpretation in Teaching reviewed by H. A. Mason; The Method and Theory of the Bauhaus, The New Vision reviewed by Storm Jameson; Mr. C. S. Lewis and the Status Quo, Rehabilitations and Other Essays reviewed by L. C. Knights; Arnold's Thought, Matthew Arnold reviewed by F. R. Leavis; The Function of Science, review of The Social Function of Science C. E. Lucas; Mr. Eliot's New Play, The Family Reunion reviewed by Martin Turnell; Euclid on Helicon, The Poet's Defence reviewed by R. O. C. Winkler; Modern Poets in Love and War, reviews by W. H. Mellers; Volume 8 No. 2 September 1939: The Claims of Politics: Richard Church, Geoffrey Davies, Christopher Dawson, George Every, S.S.M., Michael Oakeshott, Olaf Stapleton, L. Susan Stebbing, R. H. Tawney; Literary Criticism in France (I) Martin Turnell; Harmony and Composition Edmund Rubbra; A Classical Education and Eighteenth-Century Poetry A. R. Humphreys; Comments and Reviews; The End of the 'Modern Movement,' Wyndham Lewis the Artist and Art Lies Bleeding reviewed by Richard March; Ronald Bottrall, The Turning Path reviewed by R. O. C. Winkler; Post-Marxist Criticism, The Poet and Society reviewed by E. M. Bewley; Fairies in Bloomsbohemia, Portrait of Stella Benson reviewed by W. H. Mellers; Critical Guidance and Contemporary Literature, The Present Age from 1914 reviewed by F. R. Leavis; Mr. Wilson Knight, The Burning Oracle reviewed by R. O. C. Winkler; Pope on the Upswing, The Twickenham Edition Vol. IV and The Poetical Career of Alexander Pope reviewed by F. R. Leavis; Volume 8 No. 3 December 1939: The Spens Report: A Symposium-Review; The American Cultural Scene (III): Education H. B. Parkes; The Tragedy of Blood James Smith; Literary Criticism in France (II) Martin Turnell; Escapism in Literature Olaf Stapleton; Comments and Reviews; 'The Turning Path': a correction; Christian or Liberal?, The Idea of a Christian Society reviewed by D. W. Harding; Twentieth-Century Music-Making, Music in the Modern World reviewed by W. H. Mellers; Philosophy at Oxford, An Autobiography by R. G. Collingwood, reviewed by J. G. Maxwell; Poetry in France, Introduction a la Poesie Francaise reviewed by Martin Turnell; Roger Fry and Art Criticism, Lectures reviewed by Geoffrey Walton; Hollywooden Hero, The Fifth Column reviewed by W. H. Mellers; Volume 8 No. 4 March 1940: Regulated Hatred: An Aspect of the Work of Jane Austen D. W. Harding; 'Athalie' and the Dictators, by Martin Turnell; Searchlight on Tin-Pan Alley, W. H. Mellers; Revaluations (XII): The Poetry of Coleridge, Eugene Marius Bewley; Correspondence: James Smith, D. W. Harding, Professor Parrott, James Smith; Comments and Reviews; English in Schools; How to Read a Newspaper, Between the Lines reviewed by F. Chapman; Educational, Village Life and Labour and The Control of Language reviewed by T. R. Barnes; Scientific Humanism, Dangerous Thoughts reviewed by J. C. Maxwell; The Great Yeats, and the Latest, Last Poems and Plays reviewed by F. R. Leavis; Classical and Romantic Again, Tradition and Romanticism reviewed by R. G. Cox; 'Nature' in the Eighteenth Century, The Eighteenth Century Background reviewed by J. C. Maxwell; Music, The Music Review reviewed by W.H. Mellers.

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NLS9780521067881
9780521067881
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Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol 8. 1939-40 by F. R. Leavis
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