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Frank Raymond "F. R." Leavis CH (/ ˈ l iː v ɪ s / LEE-vis; 14 July 1895 – 14 April 1978) was an English literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. He taught for much of his career at Downing College, Cambridge , and later at the University of York .
F.R. Leavis (born July 14, 1895, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng.—died April 14, 1978, Cambridge) was an English literary critic who championed seriousness and moral depth in literature and criticized what he considered the amateur belletrism of his time.
Jul 26, 2017 · F. R. (Frank Raymond) Leavis (b. 14 July 1895–d. 14 April 1978) is often described as one of the most influential figures in the history of 20th-century literary criticism, particularly in British contexts.
Mar 18, 2016 · FR Leavis’ The Great Tradition (1948), an uncompromising critical and polemical survey of English fiction, controversially begins thus: “The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad!”
Frank Raymond Leavis CH (July 14, 1895 - April 14, 1978) was an influential British literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. He taught for much of his career at Downing College, Cambridge. One of the most influential figures in twentieth-century English literary criticism, Leavis introduced a "seriousness" into English studies.
Mar 18, 2016 · F. R. Leavis became the major single target for the new critical theory of the 1970s. Both Raymond Williams in Politics and Letters (1979) and Terry Eagleton in Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983) bear witness to his enormous, ubiquitous influence in English Studies from the 1930s onwards.
Leavis is often cited as one of the most important and influential literary critics of his time. Fully committed to the belief that literature is an important social and moral force, Leavis...
Feb 27, 2020 · F. R. Leavis (1895–1978) was an English literary critic and university teacher and a major figure on the English-speaking cultural landscape during the middle decades of the twentieth century. He was particularly associated with the rise of Cambridge ‘English’.
Nov 10, 2015 · Frank Raymond Leavis was born on 14 July 1895, the son of a relatively prosperous, respected and free-thinking (agnostic rationalist) Cambridge shopkeeper (the shop sold pianos and other musical instruments). Leavis attended the Perse School and had a happy and outwardly uneventful childhood.
Mar 28, 2008 · F. R. Leavis was one of the most potent single influences on English studies in the earlier and middle part of the twentieth century. He is best known for his radical revaluation of the accepted canon of English literature, and his impact lies in the revaluative activity itself as much as in the particular set of judgements it involved.
