Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol. 15 1947-48: (Volume 15 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 15 No. 1 December, 1947; Henry Sidgwick's Cambridge Q.D. Leavis; Henry James, His Symbolism and His Critics Quentin Anderson; Contemporary French Criticism Henri Peyre and H.A. Mason; Henry IV - Part I D.A. Traversi; Marivaux Martin Turnell; Correspondence from T.S. Eliot; Comments and Reviews; Approaches to T. S. Eliot, T.S. Eliot: a Study of his Writings by Several Hands, reviewed by F.R. Leavis; The Institution of Henry James, The Question of Henry James, reviewed by Q.D. Leavis; Recent Literary Criticism in German, Die Freien Rhythmen in der Deutschen Lyrik, reviewed by D.J. Enright; Education, Young Enthusiasts, reviewed by R. O'Malley; The Poet as Exucutant, Four Quartets, read by the author, reviewed by F.R. Leavis; Records, reviews by W.H. Mellers; Volume 15 No. 2 Spring, 1948; Some Cultural Implications of Freedom in Education G.H. Bantock; Henry James and the Function of Criticism F.R. Leavis; Reflections on Clarendon's History of the Rebellion L.C. Knights; Henry IV - Part II D.A. Traversi; Music Chronicle W.H. Mellers; Correspondence re Mr. Bottrall and Mr. Eliot, and 'Henry IV Part I'; Comments and Reviews; 'Critique': The First Two Years, review by H.A. Mason; Ambiguity Revised, Seven Types of Ambiquity, reviewed by R.G. Cox; Footnotes on Literature and Art, The Harp of Aeolus, reviewed by Geoffrrey Walton; Mr Auden's Quartet, The Age of Anxiety, reviewed by H.A Mason; Progressive Exercises on Reading, reviewed by T.A. Birrell; Volume 15 No. 3 Summer, 1948; Freedom in Education: Thoughts Provoked by Mr. Bantock Boris Ford; Goethe's 'Roman Elegies' D.J. Enright; Mencken and the American Language Marius Bewley; 'Timon of Athens' J.C. Maxwell; The Novel as Dramatic Poem (III): 'The Europeans' F.R. Leavis; Correspondence Ronald Bottrall;Comments and Reviews; A Note on Intellectual Life in the USA H.A. Mason; Background and Doctrine, Five Poems 1470–1870, An Elementary Essay on the Background of English Literature E.M.W. Tillyard, and Essays on Literary Criticism and the English Tradition by S.K. Bethell, reviewed by R.G. Cox; Reason and Unreason in Society by M. Ginsberg, reviewed by G.H. Bantock; 'The Portrait of a Lady' Reprinted, review by F.R. Leavis; Volume 15 No. 4 December, 1948: The Case of Stefan George D.J. Enright; Notes from American (II): Kenneth Burke as Literary Critic Marius Bewley; Intellectual Life in the U.S.A.: Comment and Reply Seymour Betsky; Authority and Method in Education: Some Reflections on Mr Ford's Rejoinder G.H. Bantock; Comments and Reviews; The Progress of Poesy F.R. Leavis; Some Marginal Notes to a Study of History, by R.G. Lienhardt; Translation into Scots, A Braird o Thristles, by Douglas Young, reviewed by J.H. Speirs; What is a National Monument? Reviews by Geoffrey Walton; Three Books on Music, The Poetics of Music by Igor Stravinsky, Music and Poetry of the English Renaissance by Bruce Pattison, A History of Music in Scotland by H.G. Farmer, reviewed by W.H. Mellers; Scientific Man Versus Power Politics H.J. Morganthau, reviewed by G.H. Bantock; The British Council in the Council in the Golden Age, records reviewed by W.H. Mellers.