Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol. 4 1935-36: (Volume 4 Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review 20 Volume Paperback Set 1932-53)

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 4 No. 1 June, 1935; Preamble to a Great Adventure, A Poem; Propaganda and Rationalization in War; Approach to Ariosto; A Hundred Years of the Higher Journalism; The Scottish Ballads; Revaluations (VII): George Chapman ii; Correspondence; Comments and Reviews; Apology to 'The Times'; Experiment in Arden; American and English Earth, Fiction; William Faulkner, William Saroyan, Erskine Caldwell and T.F. Powys; L.H. Myers, The Root and the Flower; Untouchable; The Eternal Smile; The Poems of John Clare; Marianne Moore, Selected Poems; Elizabethan Drama and the Critic, Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy; Criticism and Literary History, English Poetry and the English Language; Mr Murry's Autobiography, Between Two Worlds; The Sentimental Journey, A Life of Charles Dickens; The Faith of a Schoolmaster; Volume 4 No. 2 September, 1935: Lady Novelists and the Lower Orders; 'Intelligent Ideals of Urban Life,'; Tradition and Ben Jonson; Revaluations (VIII): Shelley; Correspondence; Comments and Reviews; Editorial; Poets and the Drama, Murder in the Cathedral and The Dog Beneath the Skin; Recent Verse; The Bond and the Free, Growing Opinions, I Was A Prisoner, Means Test Man, Caliban Shrieks; 'The Economic and Social Background,' Literature and a Changing Civilisation; Coleridge as a Dual Personality, Coleridge and S.T.C.; The Destructive Element; Mr Maugham and Spanish Literature, Don Fernando; Ethical Taste, Patterns of Culture; The Letters of Gerald Manley Hopkins, The Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges, The Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon; British Scientists of the Nineteenth Century; The Appreciation of Poetry; Volume 4 No. 3 December, 1935: English Poetry in the Seventeenth Century; The Maddermarket Theatre; Thomas Hobbes; The Critical Writings of George Santayana; Comments and Reviews; Editorial; The Soul of Man in the Age of Leisure; A Public for Poetry, Janus and Poems by Louis Macneice; William Empson's Verse; Hugh Macdiarmid; The Poet's Tongue; Shakespeare's Imagery and What It Tells Us; The Achievement of T.S. Elio; Gropius, The New Architecture and the Bauhaus; Doughty and Hopkins; The Powys Brothers; The Orage Legend; The Last Epicurean, The Last Puritan; Clear Horizon, King Coffin, Beany-Eye; Chinese Testament and The House of Exile; The South Africans; The Golden Grindstone; Volume 4 No. 4 March, 1936: Scrutiny of Modern Greats; English for the School Certification: A Note; Tragic Philosophy; Revaluations (IX): Keats; Post Obitum: Diaghileff, Pavlova; The Tendencies of Bergsonism; Comments and Reviews; Eighteenth Century Musical Taste, Burney's General History of Music; W. Emspon's Criticism, Some Versions of Pastoral; A New Critic of Ballet; The Asiatics; Regional Novels, Honey in the Horn, etc.; Totem: The Exploitation of Youth; An Amateur of Literature, The Literary Career of Sir Egerton Brydes; Human Ecology; Catholicism, Protestantism and Capitalism; The Press.