Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol. 19 1952-53
Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol. 19 1952-53
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GBPScrutiny was first issued quarterly from Cambridge between 1932 and 1953, the principal editor throughout being Dr Leavis. It is now recognized as a formative influence on English intellectual and cultural life worthy to rank with the great reviews of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This reissue is of the 1963 combined set, including a final volume containing an important Retrospect by Dr Leavis and a substantial analytical index. Scrutiny offers an almost complete critical history of English literature from Chaucer to the mid-twentieth century. Medieval literature, Shakespeare, the seventeenth-century poets, Pope, Dryden, Johnson, the great romantics, the Victorians, and nearly all the important modern writers are seriously examined. Many of the articles have become classics, and resulted in revisions of previously accepted views. An important feature of Scrutiny, still of great interest, is the book review section, where many of the important books of the time, and some of the pretentious ones too, were reviewed as they appeared.
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Table of Contents
- Volume 19 No. 1 October, 1952
- Reflections on the Milton Controversy John Peter
- The Novel as Dramatic Poem (VII) F. R. Leavis
- Graham Greene: A Comment F. N. Lees
- 'King Lear' (I) D. A. Traversi
- Comments and Reviews
- American Criticism: The Fields of Light by Reuben Arthur Brower, Modern Poetry and the Tradition by Cleanth Brookes, The Permanence of Yeats, Selected Criticism edited by James Hall and Martin Steinmann, Critiques and Essays on Modern Fiction, 1920–51 selected by John W. Aldridge, Gertrude Stein: a Biography of her Work by Donald Sutherland, reviewed by Robin Mayhead
- Emily Dickinson: Emily Dickinson by Richard Chase, reviewed by John Farrelly
- Social Anthropology: Structure and Function in Primitive Society by A. R. Radcliffe-Browne, and Social Anthropology by E. E. Evans-Pritchard, reviewed by D. F. Pocock
- Volume 18 No. 2 Winter, 1952-3: The New Scholarship? R. G. Cox
- Reality and Sincerity: Notes in the Analysis of Poetry F. R. Leavis
- Revaluations (XVI): James Fenimore Cooper Marius Bewley
- 'King Lear' (II) D. A. Traversi
- Comments and Reviews
- Dylan Thomas: Collected Poems, 1934–1952 by Dylan Thomas, reviewed by Robin Mayhead
- French Poetry: The Poetry of France, an Anthology by Alan M. Boase, reviewed by Henri Fluchère
- Great Sidney and Great Shakespeare: Poets on Fortune's Hill: Studies in Sidney, Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher by John F. Danby, reviewed by J. C. F. Littlewood
- Volume 19 No. 3 Spring, 1953: The Responsible Critic: or The Function of Criticism at Any Time F. R. Leavis
- Cowley, Marvell and the Second Temple Harold Wendell Smith
- 'King Lear' (III) D. A. Traversi
- Comments and Reviews
- The Cult of Benjamin Britten: Benjamin Britten edited by Donald Mitchell and Hans Keller, reviewed by Robin Mayhead
- A New Journal of Education: British Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. I, reviewed by G. H. Bantock
- Lives and Letters: Some Recent German Studies, reviewed by D. J. Enright
- Volume 19 No. 4 October, 1953: Valedictory
- Crawshaw and 'The Weeper' John Peter
- 'The Captain's Doll' F. R. Leavis
- 'Much Ado About Nothing' T. W. Craik
- Correspondence: 'The Responsible Critic', from F. W. Bateson
- Reply F. R. Leavis
- Letter from Geoffrey Walton
- Comments and Reviews
- Shakespeare Criticism: Shakespeare by Henri Fluchère and The Shakespearean Tempest by G. Wilson Knight, reviewed by R. G. Cox
- Joyce-Eliot-Tradition: The Anathemata by David Jones, reviewed by J. C. F. Littlewood.
