Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol 8. 1939-40

by Edited by F. R. Leavis

• ISBN13: 9780521067881
• ISBN10: 052106788X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-10
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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 2008 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.

Table of Contents

Volume 8 No. 1 June 1939

The American Cultural Scene (II) Criticism

The Ideas of Machiavelli

Classics and Education: A Note

Marlowe's 'Dr Faustus,'

Edmund Rubbra and Symphonic Form

Comments and Reviews

The Background of Twentieth-Century Letters, reviews by

The Central All-Connecting Study, Interpretation in Teaching reviewed by

The Method and Theory of the Bauhaus, The New Vision reviewed by

Mr. C. S. Lewis and the Status Quo, Rehabilitations and Other Essays reviewed by

Arnold's Thought, Matthew Arnold reviewed by

The Function of Science, review of The Social Function of Science

Mr. Eliot's New Play, The Family Reunion reviewed by

Euclid on Helicon, The Poet's Defence reviewed by

Modern Poets in Love and War, reviews by

Volume 8 No. 2 September 1939

The Claims of Politics

Literary Criticism in France (I)

Harmony and Composition

A Classical Education and Eighteenth-Century Poetry

Comments and Reviews

The End of the 'Modern Movement,' Wyndham Lewis the Artist and Art Lies Bleeding reviewed by

Ronald Bottrall, The Turning Path reviewed by

Post-Marxist Criticism, The Poet and Society reviewed by

Fairies in Bloomsbohemia, Portrait of Stella Benson reviewed by

Critical Guidance and Contemporary Literature, The Present Age from 1914 reviewed by

Mr. Wilson Knight, The Burning Oracle reviewed by

Pope on the Upswing, The Twickenham Edition Vol. IV and The Poetical Career of Alexander Pope reviewed by

Volume 8 No. 3 December 1939

The Spens Report: A Symposium-Review

The American Cultural Scene (III): Education

The Tragedy of Blood

Literary Criticism in France (II)

Escapism in Literature

Comments and Reviews

'The Turning Path': a correction

Christian or Liberal?, The Idea of a Christian Society reviewed by

Twentieth-Century Music-Making, Music in the Modern World reviewed by

Philosophy at Oxford, An Autobiography by R. G. Collingwood, reviewed by

Poetry in France, Introduction a la Poesie Francaise reviewed by

Roger Fry and Art Criticism, Lectures reviewed by

Hollywooden Hero, The Fifth Column reviewed by

Volume 8 No. 4 March 1940: Regulated Hatred: An Aspect of the Work of

'Athalie' and the Dictators

Searchlight on Tin-Pan Alley

Revaluations (XII): The Poetry of Coleridge, Eugene

Correspondence

Comments and Reviews

English in Schools

How to Read a Newspaper, Between the Lines reviewed by

Educational, Village Life and Labour and The Control of Language reviewed by

Scientific Humanism, Dangerous Thoughts reviewed by

The Great Yeats, and the Latest, Last Poems and Plays reviewed by

Classical and Romantic Again, Tradition and Romanticism reviewed by

'Nature' in the Eighteenth Century, The Eighteenth Century Background reviewed by

Music, The Music Review reviewed by

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