Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol. 16 1949

by Edited by F. R. Leavis

• ISBN13: 9780521067928
• ISBN10: 0521067928
• 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 16 No. 1 March, 1949

Measure for Measure: Or Anglo-American Exchanges

The Colloquial Mode of Byron

The Moral Basis of Political Conflicts

Correspondence from

The Case of John Webster

Comments and Reviews

D.H. Lawrence Placed, F.R.L., and Letter from

Culture and Dr. Joad

A Note on Contemporary 'Philosophical' Literary Criticism in France

Puritan Bunyan, John Bunyan: L'homme et l'++uvre reviewed by

Mr Eliot and Education, Notes Towards a Definition of Culture reviewed by

American Critics and Poetic Drama, reviews by

Cross-Currents in Twentieth Century Music, records reviewed by

'Humanitas', Note

Volume 16 No. 2 June, 1949

Arthur Koestler

The 'Cortegiano' and the Civilization of the Renaissance

Mill, Beatrice Webb and the 'English School'

'The Tempest'

Comments and Reviews

Shakespeare and the Meaning of 'Nature', Shakespeare's Doctrine of Nature by John F. Danby, reviewed by

Lovejoy and the History of Ideas, The Great Chain of Being and Essays in the History of Ideas, reviewed by

Homage to Common Sense, Francis Jeffrey of the Edinburgh Review by James A. Grieg, reviewed by

Men of Letters and the English Public in the XVIIIth Century by Beljame, reviewed by

Beatrice Webb in Partnership, Our Partnership reviewed by

Volume 15 No. 3 September, 1949

James' Debt to Hawthorne (I): 'The Blithedale Romance' and 'The Bostonians'

The Shakespearean Dialectic: An Aspect of 'Antony and Cleopatra'

Required Literature Courses as a Contribution to Culture

'The Family Reunion'

In Memoriam: W. Schenk, 1928-1949

Correspondence

Comments and Reviews

Keynes, Lawrence and Cambridge, Two Memoirs, reviewed by

The Cult of Dylan Thomas, Dylan Thomas by Henry Treece, reviewed by

Mr Turnell's Criticism, The Classical Moment, reviewed by

The New Antiquarianism, The Theory of Literature by Wellek and Warren, reviewed by

Proust and his Critics, reviews by

The Content of Education, An Essay on the Content of Education, reviewed by

Volume 16 No. 4 Winter, 1949

'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

James's Debt to Hawthorne (II): 'The Marble Faun' and 'The Wings of the Dove'

On The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra

Correspondence

Comments and Reviews

The Shakespeare Industry: Progress Report, Shakespeare Survey 2, reviewed by

The Logic of Christian Discrimination, Poetry and Personal Responsibility by George Every, reviewed by

Art: The Religion and the Saint, Recollections of Logan Pearsall Smith reviewed by

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