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Article: The Oracular F. R. Leavis.
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- American Scholar
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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For more than forty years, Frank Raymond Leavis was an insistently hovering presence in the intellectual and academic life of Britain and America. Sternly and abrasively contemptuous of what he considered the easy adulation and routine puffery that passed for judgment in the teaching and promotion of literature, he preached that great fiction and poetry had to combine persuasive moral content with aesthetic mastery. He fervently believed that if writers of criticism and social commentary were to enlist literature as evidence, they had to base themselves on a cultivated grasp of literary merit.
I became aware of Leavis while pursuing a doctorate at Columbia ...
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