Author:Frank Raymond Leavis

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Frank Raymond Leavis (1895–1978)

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Contents 1 Works 1.1 Journals 1.2 Books 2 About Leavis

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[edit] Journals

• Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review (editor and contributor)

[edit] Books

The books listed below include most of Leavis's articles, reviews, introductions and criticism (Source: adapted from Singh,1995)

• Mass Civilization and Minority Culture, Minority Pamphlet No. 1, Gordon Fraser, The Minority Press: Cambridge, 1930.
• New Bearings in English Poetry: A Study of the Contemporary Situation, Chatto & Windus: London, 1932.
• How to Teach Reading: A Primer for Ezra Pound, Gordon Fraser, The Minority Press: Cambridge, 1932.
• D. H. Lawrence, Gordon Fraser, The Minority Press: Cambridge, 1932. For Continuity, Gordon Fraser, The Minority Press: Cambridge, 1933.
• Towards Standards of Criticism, selections from The Calendar of Modern Letters, with an Introduction by F. R. Leavis, Lawrence & Wishart: London, 1933.
• Culture and Environment: The Training of Critical Awareness (with Denys Thompson), Chatto & Windus: London; Oxford University Press: Toronto, 1933.
• Determinations: Critical Essays, edited with an Introduction by F. R. Leavis, Chatto & Windus: London, 1934.
• Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry, Chatto & Windus: London; Macmillan: Toronto, 1936.
• Education and the University: A Sketch for an English School, Chatto & Windus: London; Macmillan: Toronto, 1943.
• The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Chatto & Windus: London; Clarke Irwin: Toronto, 1948.
• Mill on Bentham and Coleridge, with an Introduction by F. R. Leavis (pp. 1-38), Chatto & Windus: London, 1950.
• The Common Pursuit, Chatto & Windus: London; Clarke, Irwin: Toronto, 1952.
• D. H. Lawrence: Novelist, Chatto & Windus: London; Clarke, Irwin: Toronto, 1955.
• Two Cultures? The Significance of C. P. Snow, Being the Richmond Lecture, 1962, with an Essay on Sir Charles Snow's Rede Lecture by Michael Yudkin, Chatto & Windus: London; Clarke, Irwin: Toronto, 1962.
• Scrutiny: A Reprint, 20 volumes, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1963.
• Anna Karenina and Other Essays, Chatto & Windus: London, 1967.
• A Selection from Scrutiny, 2 volumes, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1968.
• English Literature in Our Time and the University, Chatto & Windus: London, 1969.
• Lectures in America (with Q. D. Leavis), Chatto & Windus: London, 1969.
• Dickens the Novelist (with Q. D. Leavis), Chatto & Windus: London, 1970.
• Nor Shall My Sword: Discourses on Pluralism, Compassion and Social Hope, Chatto & Windus: London, 1972.
• Letters in Criticism, edited with an Introduction by John Tasker, Chatto & Windus: London, 1974.
• The Living Principle: 'English' as a Discipline of Thought, Chatto & Windus: London, 1975.
• Towards Standards of Criticism: Selections from The Calendar of Modern Letters, chosen and with a new Introduction by F. R. Leavis, Lawrence & Wishart: London,1976.
• Thought, Words and Creativity: Art and Thought in Lawrence, Chatto & Windus:London, 1976.
• The Critic as Anti-Philosopher, edited by G. Singh, Chatto & Windus: London, 1982.
• Valuation in Criticism and Other Essays, edited by G. Singh, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1986.

[edit] About Leavis

• Michael Bell, F. R. Leavis (1988)
• R. P. Bilan, The Literary Criticism of F. R. Leavis (1979)
• Gary Day, Re-Reading Leavis: Culture and Literary Criticism (1996)
• Edward Greenwood, F. R. Leavis, Longman Group: London, (1978)
• Ronald Hayman, Leavis (1976)
• M. B. Kinch, William Baker, and John Kimber, F. R. and Q. D. Leavis: An Annotated Bibliography (1989)
• Ian MacKillop F. R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism (1995)
• Francis Mulhern, The Moment of "Scrutiny" (1979)
• New Universities Quarterly 30 (1975, special issue on Leavis)
• Norman Podhoretz, "F. R. Leavis: A Revaluation," in The Bloody Crossroads (1986)
• P. J. M. Robertson, The Leavises on Fiction: An Historic Partnership (1981)
• Anne Samson, F. R. Leavis (1992)
• G. Singh, F. R. Leavis: A Literary Biography, London, Duckworth, 1995
• Richard Stotesbury, M. B. Mencher, G. L. Gibbs and Brian Lee, Leavis, Dr MacKillop and "The Cambridge Quarterly" (1998)
• The Cambridge Quarterly, (F. R. Leavis Special Issue), Vol.25, No.4, 1996.
• Denys Thompson (ed)., The Leavises: Memories and Reminiscences (1986)
• William Walsh, F. R. Leavis (1980)

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