F. R. Leavis

Margaret Drabble began work on her biography of AB (published in 1974) in a partisan spirit, because she felt Bennett was seriously undervalued. She was, she wrote, surprised to find she enjoyed and respected...

Much later estimates continued to assimilate Q. D.'s work to that of F. R., and to repeat the original Lucas estimate. Near the end of QDL 's life, Francis Mulhern in The Moment of "Scrutiny"...

Ashton suggests that GE anticipated the case made in Theodor Herzl 's The Jewish State, 1896. The first Jewish readers of the novel were delighted and impressed both by GE 's deep knowledge and...

The critical tide did not turn (despite some acute criticism from Virginia Woolf , who called Middlemarchthe magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels written for grown-up...

Early twentieth-century critics represented EG as a thoroughly domestic and womanly woman—Lord David Cecil in Early Victorian Novelists described her as the typical Victorian woman: gentle, domestic, tactful, unintellectual, prone to tears, easily...

QDL spent most of her Amy Mary Preston Read scholarship money establishing the journal Scrutiny, in conjunction with her husband . She worked as a contributor and editor from the journal's inception in May...

By 1950, QDL was feeling the strain of drudging for [her] husband and Scrutiny, leaving her no time for [her] own purposes. After the journal ended in 1953, she continued to collaborate with...

On invitation from the British Council , Q. D. and F. R. Leavis visited Finland: F. R. lectured and Q. D. led seminars at the universities of Helsinki and Abo (the Swedish name of what...

Q. D. and F. R. Leavis travelled to America, where they lectured at Cornell and Harvard .

Working again through the British Council , Q. D. and F. R. Leavis lectured on Austen , Eliot , and Yeats in Rome, Milan, Padua, and Bologna.

In her socio-anthropologicalcritical monographs and essays, QDL evaluates literature by examining it in the context of the culture from which it emerges. She focuses on intellectual, social, and moral elements of literary work, and...

ASB later found her own original work severe and Leavis ite.

The reviews for this book were mixed. Amabel Williams-Ellis said in The Spectator that the poems showed a permeating sense of effort not to be young lady-ish.F. R. Leavis dismissed Parallaxas simple...

With some minor exceptions, interactions between QDL and Virginia Woolf were hostile. Both Leavises regularly took up an anti-Bloomsbury stance in their lecturing and writing. After reading QDL 's review, Woolf remarked in her...

Though Thomas's reputation has often been assailed (by the Movement poets, by F. R. Leavis , by Welsh nationalists), he now rests in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey; a first edition of Under Milk...