The Common Pursuit
โ Scribed by F. R. Leavis
- Book ID
- 106961975
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 246 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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### About the Author F.R. Leavis was born in 1895 in Cambridge, where he would live and teach for most of the rest of his life. He volunteered as a stretcher-bearer in the First World War, and was badly gassed on the Western Front. Appointed Director of Studies in English at Downing College, Cambri
F. R. Leavis was the chief editor of *Scrutiny*, which between 1932 and 1953 had some claim on being the most influential literary journal in the English-speaking world. **The Common Pursuit** is a selection of Leavis's essays from *Scrutiny*, including his robust defence of Milton against T. S. El