Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol. 11 1942-43

Scrutiny was first issued quarterly from Cambridge between 1932 and 1953.

F. R. Leavis (Edited by)

9780521067850, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 10 July 2008

332 pages
22.8 x 14.8 x 1.8 cm, 0.3 kg

Scrutiny 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.

Volume 11 No. 1 Summer, 1942: Towards a Conception of Musical Tradition (I): Melody and Texture, Mediaeval and Modern W.H. Mellers
Farewell and Welcome: A Sequence of Poems Ronald Bottrall
A Case for Kipling? Boris Ford
Demigods and Pickpockets: The Augustan Myth in Swift and Rousseau J.C. Maxwell
'Measure for Measure' D.A. Traversi
Comments and Reviews
Eliot's Later Poetry, The Dry Salvages reviewed by F.R. Leavis
An American Critic, Edmund Wilson's The Wound and the Bow reviewed by F.R. Leavis
Gramaphone Records, Byrd: Mass for Five Voices and Recital of Russian Songs reviewed by W.H. Mellers
Johnson, The Poems of Samuel Johnson reviewed by F.R. Leavis
Ruins and Warnings, Stephen Spender's Ruins and Visions and Henry Treece's Invitation and Warning reviewed by D.J. Enright
Volume 11 No. 2 December, 1942: Evidence Evalued Ronald Bottrall
Chaucer: (I) 'Troilus and Criseyde' John Speirs
A Letter on the Music Criticism of W.H. Mellers Boris Ford and Stephen Reiss
A Reply W.H. Mellers
Benjamin Constant and 'Adolphie' Martin Turnell
Comments and Reviews
Milton Again, A Preface to Paradise Lost, reviewed by L.C. Knights
Landor and the Seasoned Epicure, Savage Landor, reviewed by F.R. Leavis
Scientific Attitudes, A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy and Religion, reviewed by R.O.C Winkler
Hölderlin: Poet of the Gods, Hölderlin: Gedichte, reviewed by D.J. Enright
A Novel to Recommend, Darkness at Noon, reviewed by Q.D. Leavis
Volume 11 No. 3 Spring, 1943: Education and the University: Considerations at a Critical Time F.R. Leavis
New English and American Music W.H. Mellers
Cormac's Ruined House: A Survey of the Modern Irish Novel D.J. Enright
Chaucer (II): The Canterbury Tales (I) John Speirs
Comments and Reviews
'We have not Reached Conclusion', Little Gidding, reviewed by D.W. Harding
Hopkins and Yeats, Gerard Manley, Hopkins, Priest and Poet, and The Development of William Butler Yeats, reviewed by R.G. Lienhardt
'Education for Democracy', A New Order in English Education and The Universities in Transformation, reviewed by L.C. Knights
Hardy and Criticism, Thomas Hardy (English Men of Letters) and Hardy the Novelist, reviewed by Q.D. Leavis
Current Pamphleteering, reviews by Geoffrey Walton
Volume 11 No. 4 Summer, 1943: 'Le Misanthrope' (I) Martin Turnell
Objections to a Review of 'Little Gidding' R.N. Higinbotham
Reflections on the Above F.R. Leavis
Bacon and the Seventeenth-Century Dissociation of Sensibility L.C. Knights
Comments and Reviews
The Innocence of Dr. Wooster R.C. Churchill
The Heirs of Baudelaire, The Heritage of Symbolism, reviewed by Martin Turnell
Architecture and Society, reviews by Geoffrey Walton
Academic Case-History, Haddon the Head Hunter, reviewed by Q.D. Leavis
Physics and Metaphysics Again, Physics and Philosophy, reviewed by R.O.C. Winkler
Thomas Mann and the Abyss, Stories of Three Decades, reviewed by D.J. Enright
Note on Music W.H. Mellers.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]