Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol. 18 1951-52

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

F. R. Leavis (Edited by)

9780521068130, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 10 July 2008

332 pages
22.4 x 14.4 x 1.9 cm, 0.042 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 18 No. 1 June, 1951: Victorian Criticism of Poetry: The Minority Tradition R. G. Cox
The Novel as Dramatic Poem (VI) F. R. Leavis
Matthew Arnold, H.M.I. G. H. Bantock
Comments and Reviews
Keynes, Spender and Currency-Values: World within World by Stephen Spender and The Life of John Maynard Keynes by R. F. Harrod, reviewed by F. R. Leavis
History and Criticism in the Home University: Seventeenth Century English Literature by C. V. Wedgwood, reviewed by R. G. Cox
The Arnoldian Function in American Criticism: The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling, reviewed by N. Podhoretz
Mr. Eliot and Lawrence: D. H. Lawrence and Human Existence by Father Wm. Tiverton and Portrait of a Genius, But… by Richard Aldington, reviewed by F. R. Leavis
Pound in His Letters: The Letters of Ezra Pound and Ezra Pound, a collection of essays edited by Peter Russell, reviewed by F. R. Leavis
Correction
The Verse of Christopher Fry: Venus Observed, The Lady's not for Burning and A Sleep of Prisoners reviewed by Marius Bewley
Volume 18 No. 2 Autumn, 1951: The Mystery Cycle (I): Some Towneley Cycle Plays John Speir
'Reason' and the Restoration Ethos Harold Wendell Smith
Correspondence: Lawrence and Eliot: Robert D. Wagner and F. R. Leavis
'Troilus and Cressida' Again L. C. Knights
Comments and Reviews
Auden as Critic and Poet: The Enchafèd Flood by W. H. Auden and Auden: an Introductory Note by Richard Hoggart, reviewed by R. G. Cox
Middle English Literature by George Kane, reviewed by John Speirs
Volume 18 No. 3 Winter, 1951-52
Scott Fitzgerald D.W. Harding
'The Dissociation of Sensibility' Harold Wendell Smith
Correspondence: Marjorie Cox, V. de S. Pinto, John Gillard Watson, John Speirs
The Novel as Dramatic Poem (VII): 'The Rainbow' (I) F. R. Leavis
Poetic Satire and the Satire in Verse D. J. Enright
Comments and Reviews
Mr Pryce-Jones, The British Council and British Culture: Edmund Wilson of 'The New Yorker': Classics and Commercials reviewed by John Farrelly
An Approach to Sophocles: Sophocles the Dramatist by A. J. A. Waldock, and Shakespeare's Tragedies by G. B. Harrison, reviewed by R. Mayhead
Shakespeare's Imagery: The Development of Shakespeare's Imagery by W. H. Clemen, reviewed by R. G. Cox
Donne Re-considered: The Monarch of Wit by J. B. Leishman, reviewed by R. Mayhead
Volume 18 No. 4 June, 1952
The Mystery Cycle (II): Some Towneley Plays John Speirs
Scott Fitzgerald: Another View John Farrelly
'The Novel as a Dramatic Poem (VII): 'The Rainbow' (II) F. R. Leavis
Nature, Correctness and Decorum Harold Wendell Smith
Comments and Reviews
The Latest Auden: Nones by W. H. Auden, reviewed by R. Mayhead
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Shakespeare and Elizabethan Poetry by M. C. Bradbrook, reviewed by L. A. Cormican.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]