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Reception | Edith Sitwell | This book drew accusations of plagiarism from F. R. Leavis
, another critic with strong views as to what was valuable or otherwise in literature, but one whom ES
despised. Her obituarist later noted that... |
Reception | Dylan Thomas | 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... |
Author summary | Q. D. Leavis | In her socio-anthropological critical 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... |
Occupation | Q. D. Leavis | 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... |
Occupation | Q. D. Leavis | |
Occupation | Q. D. Leavis | Working again through the British Council
, Q. D.
and F. R. Leavis
lectured on Austen
, Eliot
, and Yeats
in Rome, Milan, Padua, and Bologna. Singh, G., and Q. D. Leavis. F.R. Leavis: A Literary Biography. Duckworth. 283-4 |
Occupation | Q. D. Leavis | 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... |
Occupation | Q. D. Leavis | By 1950, QDL
was feeling the strain of drudging for [her] husband
and Scrutiny, leaving her no time for [her] own purposes. MacKillop, Ian. F.R. Leavis: A Life in Criticism. Allen Lane. 266 |
Literary responses | Arnold Bennett | 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... |
Literary responses | Q. D. Leavis | 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"... |
Literary responses | George Eliot | 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... |
Literary responses | George Eliot | 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... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Gaskell | 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... |
Literary responses | Gerard Manley Hopkins | Almost all reviewers were baffled by GMH
's poetry at its first appearance, and chose to think of Bridges as indulging an eccentric personal loyalty. When the second edition was published in 1930, on the... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Q. D. Leavis | This book was conceptualized as a sequel to the dissertation of her husband F. R. Leavis
, completed in 1924, The Relationship of Journalism to Literature: Studied in the Rise and Earlier Development of the... |
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