Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol. 12 1944-45

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

F. R. Leavis (Edited by)

9780521068017, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 10 July 2008

328 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 12 No. 1 Winter, 1943: Literature and Society F.R. Leavis
'The Discipline of Letters': A Sociological Note Q.D. Leavis
'Le Misanthrope' (II) Martin Turnell
Chaucer (III): The Canterbury Tales (II) John Speirs
Comments and Reviews
The Modern Universities, Redbrick University, reviewed by L.C. Knights
Advertising and Civilisation, Voice of Civilisation, reviewed by R.C. Churchill
English Character, Orientations and Man and Boy, reviewed by Q.D. Leavis
Hugh Macdiamid, Lucky Poet, reviewed by John Durkan
'the Dunciad', Poems of Alexander Pope, Vol.V., reviewed by F.R. Leavis
Volume 12 No. 2 Spring, 1944: Evaluations (IV): Gerard Manley Hopkins, by F.R. Leavis
Rilke and Hoelderlin in Translation D.J. Enright
A Critical Theory of Jane Austen's Writings: III. The Letters Q.D. Leavis
Towards a Conception of Musical Tradition (II): Voice and Dance in the XVI and XVII Centuries W.H. Mellers
Comments and Reviews
The Ultimate Vision, An Anthology of Religious Verse, etc., reviewed by R.C. Lienhardt
How Shall we Teach? Education Through Art, reviewed by Geoffrey Walton
Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Climate, Shakespeare and the Nature of Man, reviewed by L.C. Knights
Charlotte Younge and 'Christian Discrimination', reviews by Q.D. Leavis
Bax and the British Council, Symphony No.3, records reviewed by W.H.Mellers
Volume 12 No. 3 Summer, 1944: Stefan George and the New Empire D.J. Enright
George Herbert L.C. Knights
Johnson as Critic F.R. Leavis
Towards a Conception of Musical Tradition (II): Voice and Dance in the XVI and XVII Centuries (ii) W.H. Mellers
Comments and Reviews
Co-Prosperity?, The Case for Examinations, reviewed by Denys Thompson
The Liberal Case, The Road to Serfdom, reviewed by J.C. Maxwell
'Attitude for the Modern Poet', The Personal Principle, reviewed by R.C. Lienhardt
Approach to Shakespeare, Shakespeare and the Popular Dramatic Tradition, reviewed by A.I. Doyle
'Modern Poetry' in School, Introducing Modern Poetry, reviewed by Frank Chapman
Volume 12 No. 4 Summer, 1944
Moral Bewilderment Morris Ginsberg
Tragedy and the 'Medium': a Note on Mr. Santayana's 'Tragic Philosophy' F.R. Leavis
Two Generations of English Music W.H. Mellers
'Phedre', by Martin Turnell
J.B. Leishman and the Art of Translation D.J. Enright
Comments and Reviews
Catholicity or Narrowness?, A Critical History of English Poetry reviewed by F.R. Leavis
Hopkins Commemorated, Gerard Manley Hopkins reviewed by R.G. Lienhardt
Tristan and Isolt, Tristan and Isolt reviewed by D.J. Enright
Meet Mr. Forster, E.M. Forster reviewed by F.R. Leavis
The Age of Yeats or the Age of Eliot?, poetry reviewed by Geoffrey Walton.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]