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 14 No. 1 Summer, 1946; Les Chemins de la Liberte H.A. Mason; Revaluations (XV) : George Eliot (III) F.R. Leavis ; Goethe's 'Faust' and the Written Word: (III) The Second Part (Concluded) D.J. Enright; Comments and Reviews; Planning your life at the University, First Year at the University, reviewed by H.A. Mason; Clio Elevated, or the Spirit of English History, The Spirit of English History, reviewed by A.J. Woolford; Mr Lewis's Theology, The Great Divorce, reviewed by E.K.T. Dock; Mixed Currency, The Mint, reviewed by R.G. Cox; Dylan Thomas, Deaths and Entrances, reviewed by Wolf Mankowitz; Elucidating Eliot, Four Quartets Rehearsed, reviewed by H.A. Mason; Malinnowski, The Dynamics of Culture Change, reviewed by R.G. Lienhardt; Records, reviews by W.H. Mellers; Volume 14 No. 2 December, 1946; M. Camus and the Tragic Hero H.A. Mason; The Rhythmical Intention in Wyatt's Poetry D.W. Harding; George Eliot (IV): 'Daniel Deronda' and 'The Portrait of a Lady' F.R. Leavis; Comments and Reviews; Henry James and the English Association; 'The Times Literary Supplement'; An Irish Monthly; 'The Kenyon Review' and 'Scrutiny'; For Whom do Universities Exist?; A Passage to Palestine, Thieves in the Night reviewed by Q.D. Leavis; Eliot's Heir, A Map of Verona and The Garden reviewed by G.D. Klingopulos; Modern Poetic Drama, The Poet in the Theatre reviewed by R.G. Cox; Guillaume Apollinaire, Choix de Poésie and Apollinaire reviewed by G.D. Klingopulos; The Sights of Coney Island, The Cosmological Eye reviewed by R.G. Lienhardt; The English Kafka, The Cult of Power reviewed by H.A. Mason; Records, reviews by W.H. Mellers; Volume 14 No. 3 Spring, 1947; Andre Malraux and His Critics H.A. Mason; The Cultural Implications of Planning and Popularization G.H. Bantock; The Novel as Dramatic Poem (I): 'Hard Times' F.R. Leavis; Professor Chadwick and English Studies A Pupil; Comments and Reviews; Rehabilitating Isben, Ibsen: the Intellectual Background and Ibsen the Norwegian, reviewed by R.G. Cox; Room for Doubt? Mr Bottrall's Selected Poems, Selected Poems, reviewed by H.A. Mason; Henry James: The Stories, Fourteen Stories by Henry James, reviewed by Q.D. Leavis; The Appreciation of Henry James, Henry James: the Major Phase, reviewed by W.H. Mellers; Secret Chromatic Art in the Netherlands Motet, reviewed by W.H. Mellers; Gramophone Records, reviews by W.H. Mellers; Volume 14 No. 4 September, 1947; The Two Henry Jameses Quentin Anderson; Professor Chadwick and English Studies: Comments by J.C. Maxwell and Redbrick; The Critical Review Today: Prolegomena to a Historical Inquiry R.G. Cox;The Novel as Dramatic Poem (II): 'Wuthering Heights' G.D. Klingopulos; Music Chronicle W.H. Mellers; Correspondence from R. Bottrall; Comments and Reviews; Henry James's First Novel, Roderick Hudson, reviewed by F.R. Leavis; The Poetic Image, Day Lewis, reviewed by R.G. Cox; Folk Songs of Chhattisgarh, Verrier Elwin, reviewed by D.W.H.; Note on The Great Short Novels of Henry James, Philip Rahv Q.D.Leavis; Albert Camus: Difficult Hope, La Peste, reviewed by H.A. Mason; Hugo - All the Best, Modern French Literature, Denis Saurat, reviewed by C.A. Hackett; Inyerpreter or Oracle? The Crown of Life, G. Wilson Knight, reviewed by R.G. Cox.
