Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol. 11 1942-43

by Edited by F. R. Leavis

• ISBN13: 9780521067850
• ISBN10: 0521067855
• 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 11 No. 1 Summer, 1942

Towards a Conception of Musical Tradition (I): Melody and Texture, Mediaeval and Modern

Farewell and Welcome: A Sequence of Poems

A Case for Kipling?

Demigods and Pickpockets: The Augustan Myth in Swift and Rousseau

'Measure for Measure'

Comments and Reviews

Eliot's Later Poetry, The Dry Salvages reviewed by

An American Critic, Edmund Wilson's The Wound and the Bow reviewed by

Gramaphone Records, Byrd: Mass for Five Voices and Recital of Russian Songs reviewed by

Johnson, The Poems of Samuel Johnson reviewed by

Ruins and Warnings, Stephen Spender's Ruins and Visions and Henry Treece's Invitation and Warning reviewed by

Volume 11 No. 2 December, 1942

Evidence Evalued

Chaucer: (I) 'Troilus and Criseyde'

A Letter on the Music Criticism of

A Reply

Benjamin Constant and 'Adolphie'

Comments and Reviews

Milton Again, A Preface to Paradise Lost, reviewed by

Landor and the Seasoned Epicure, Savage Landor, reviewed by

Scientific Attitudes, A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy and Religion, reviewed by

H_lderlin: Poet of the Gods, H_lderlin: Gedichte, reviewed by

A Novel to Recommend, Darkness at Noon, reviewed by

Volume 11 No. 3 Spring, 1943

Education and the University: Considerations at a Critical Time

New English and American Music

Cormac's Ruined House: A Survey of the Modern Irish Novel

Chaucer (II): The Canterbury Tales (I)

Comments and Reviews

'We have not Reached Conclusion', Little Gidding, reviewed by

Hopkins and Yeats, Gerard Manley, Hopkins, Priest and Poet, and The Development of William Butler Yeats, reviewed by

'Education for Democracy', A New Order in English Education and The Universities in Transformation, reviewed by

Hardy and Criticism, Thomas Hardy (English Men of Letters) and Hardy the Novelist, reviewed by

Current Pamphleteering, reviews by

Volume 11 No. 4 Summer, 1943

'Le Misanthrope' (I)

Objections to a Review of 'Little Gidding'

Reflections on the Above

Bacon and the Seventeenth-Century Dissociation of Sensibility

Comments and Reviews

The Innocence of

The Heirs of Baudelaire, The Heritage of Symbolism, reviewed by

Architecture and Society, reviews by

Academic Case-History, Haddon the Head Hunter, reviewed by

Physics and Metaphysics Again, Physics and Philosophy, reviewed by

Thomas Mann and the Abyss, Stories of Three Decades, reviewed by

Note on Music

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