The Common Pursuit by F. R. Leavis
By F. R. Leavis
F. R. Leavis used to be the executive editor of Scrutiny, which among 1932 and 1953 had a few declare on being the main influential literary magazine within the English-speaking international.
The universal Pursuit is a range of Leavis's essays from Scrutiny, together with his strong defence of Milton opposed to T. S. Eliot, his deeply-felt engagement with Shakespeare, and his critical strictures on makes an attempt to import sociology and political activism into the learn of literature.
The name of the publication comes from a passage in Eliot's 'The functionality of Criticism', within which the poet argues that the critic needs to have interaction in 'the universal pursuit of actual judgment'. For Leavis, this intended a strenuous insistence on discriminatory feedback - transparent statements approximately what's solid and morally mature and admirable, and both transparent condemnation of what's trivial. The universal Pursuit, with its arguable judgments of Bunyan and Auden, speedy and Forster, is still as difficult now because it did in 1952, and you may see why Leavis - who was once by no means provided a professorship by way of Cambridge collage - held such sway over the research of English literature in his time.
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