About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: F. R. Leavis, Michael Meacher, J. L. Mackie, Haleh Afshar, Alex Callinicos, Laurie Taylor, Glen Newey, John Beddington, Graeme Moodie, Hermione Lee, Mary Luckhurst, Harry Ree, Jennifer Wilby, Gerald Aylmer, A.W. Coats, Robert Sherlaw Johnson, John Potter, Wilfrid Mellers, John Williamson, Nicola LeFanu, David Jesson, Alan T. Peacock, Trevor Pinch, Carole Bromley, Jim Woodcock, Brian Cantor, Martin Carver, Janet Ford, Felicity Riddy, Gianni De Fraja, Alan Burns, Keith Robbins, Patrick Nuttgens, Jonathan Dollimore, John Barrell, Andy Wellings, Trevor Sheldon, Sid Bradley, Martin Bland, Phil Ineson, Sally Baldwin, Derek Attridge, Alastair Fitter, Elizabeth Heaps, Guy Dodson, Hugh Haughton, Michael Helm, Norman Hampson, Michael Cordner, Graham Hitch, Neil Carter, Ottoline Leyser, Brian Loader, Jeremy Goldberg, Mark Williamson, Tom Stoneham, Tom Cantrell. Excerpt: Frank Raymond Leavis CH (14 July 1895 - 14 April 1978) was an influential British literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. He taught and studied for nearly his entire life at Downing College, Cambridge. Frank Raymond Leavis was born in Cambridge, England, in 1895, about a decade after T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence and Ezra Pound, literary figures whose reputations he would later contribute to enhancing. His father, Harry Leavis, a cultured man, ran a small shop in Cambridge which sold pianos and other musical instruments (Hayman 1), and his son was to retain a respect for him throughout his life. Frank Leavis was educated at a local independent private school, The Perse School, whose headmaster at the time was Dr. W. H. D. Rouse. Rouse was a classicist and known for his "direct method," a practice which required teachers to carry on classroom conversations with their pupils in Latin and classical Greek. Though he enjoyed languages to a ...
