Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol. 11 1942-43

by F. R. Leavis (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521067850
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/10/2008
Series:	Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review 20 Volume Paperback Set 1932-53
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

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.