Scrutiny vol. 20 Index & Retrosp (Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review 20 Volume Paperback Set 1932-53) by Leavis, F. R. [Editor]

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. As New with no dust jacket. 2008. First Edition Thus. Original Wrappers. 0521067987 . 221 pages. Stamped Damaged on verso title page. Otherwise new. ; Paperback; Octavo; 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… Read More

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Paperback / softback. New. 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.