About the Book
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 10 No. 1 June 1941: Correspondence (re Marxism) H.B Parkes; Towards a Musical Academy W.H. Mellers; Revaluations (XIV): Joseph Conrad (I) F.R. Leavis; Nietzche H.B. Parkes; A Critical Theory of Jane Austen's Writings Q.D. Leavis; Comments and Reviews; BARTÓK ON WAX, Quartet No.2 reviewed by W.H. Mellers; Louis Macneice, Plant and Phantom reviewed by R.G. Lienhardt; The Ox in Spain, For Whom the Bell Tolls reviewed by W.H. Mellers; Science and Society, The Social Relations of Science reviewed by C.E. Lucas; Volume 10 No. 2 October, 1941: Conservatism and Tradition: Post Obitum - Donald Francis Tovey, Hamilton Harty, Frank Bridge W.H. Mellers; A Critical Theory of Jane Austen's Writings (II): 'Lady Susan' into 'Mansfield Park,' Q.D. Leavis; The Development of Modern Italian Poetry (I), D.A. Traversi; Revaluations (XIV): Joseph Conrad (concluded), F.R Leavis; Comments and Reviews; A Plea for the English Ballet, Boris Ford; The 'Thirties Reply, Folios of New Writing, Spring 1941 reviewed by R.G. Cox; Crumbs from the Banquet, Points of View by T.S. Eliot, reviewed by R.O.C. Winkley; Ideals and Illusions by Susan Stebbing, reviewed by J.C. Maxwell; the Concise 'C.H.E.L.', The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature reviewed by Boris Ford; Mr Auden's Weltanschauung, New Year Letter reviewed by R.O.C. Winkler; ABrahms Recording, Trio in A minor for clarinet, 'cello and piano reviewed by W.H. Mellers; Mr Newton and the Conquest of Appearances, European Painting and Sculpture reviewed by Stephen Reiss; Volume 10 No. 3 January, 1942: 'First Broadcast Performance,' W.H. Mellers; The Ambiguity of 'Measure for Measure,' L.C. Knights; The Greatness of 'Measure for Measure,' F.R. Leavis; A Note on Literature and the Irish Tradition, D.J. Enright; The Significance of the 'Princesse de Cleves,' by Martin Turnell; A Critical Theory of Jane Austen's Writings (II): 'Lady Susan' into 'Mansfield Park' (concluded), Q. D. Leavis; Comments and Reviews; After 'To the Lighthouse' Between the Acts reviewed by F.R. Leavis; A Book on Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke, reviewed by D. J. Enright; Dickens as Journalist, The Dickens World, reviewed by R.C. Churchill; The Starlit Dome, reviewed by T.R. Barnes; Tippettan Discovery, Fantasy Sonata for Piano, reviewed by W.H. Mellers; Dvorak Centenary Records, reviews by W.H. Mellers; Cornish Microcosm, Tudor Cornwall, reviewed by Vero Mellers; Science and Values, Knowledge for What? and The Scientific Attitude, reviewed by C.E. Lucas; Editorial Note on Reviewing; Volume 10 No. 4 April, 1942: After Ten Years: Editorial; The Significance of 'Cymbeline', A.A. Stephenson, The Criticism of Shakespeare's Late Plays: A Caveat, F.R. Leavis; Language and Function in American Music, by W.H. Mellers; Dickens, Drama and Tradition, R.C. Churchill; Comments and Reviews; Master of the King's Musick, 1942, W.H.M.; Poetry and Politics, Life and the Poet, reviewed by L.C. Knights; A Prescription for the West, The Recovery of the West, reviewed by R.O.C. Winkler; Modern Verse and the Anthologist, reviews by R.C. Lienhardt; Recent Political Theory, reviews by J.C. Maxwell; Academic Scholarship, English and American, reviews by R.G. Cox; Shchedrin: The Russian Swift, Shchedrin's Fables, reviewed by D.J. Enright; Gramophone Records, Bloch's Quartet for piano and strings and String Quartet, reviewed by W.H.M.
