Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol. 18 1951-52

by Edited by F. R. Leavis

• ISBN13: 9780521068130
• ISBN10: 0521068134
• 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 18 No. 1 June, 1951

Victorian Criticism of Poetry: The Minority Tradition

The Novel as Dramatic Poem (VI)

Matthew Arnold, H.M.I.

Comments and Reviews

Keynes, Spender and Currency-Values: World within World by Stephen Spender and The Life of John Maynard Keynes by R. F. Harrod, reviewed by

History and Criticism in the Home University: Seventeenth Century English Literature by C. V. Wedgwood, reviewed by

The Arnoldian Function in American Criticism: The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling, reviewed by

Mr. Eliot and Lawrence: D. H. Lawrence and Human Existence by Father Wm. Tiverton and Portrait of a Genius, But... by Richard Aldington, reviewed by

Pound in His Letters: The Letters of Ezra Pound and Ezra Pound, a collection of essays edited by Peter Russell, reviewed by

Correction

The Verse of Christopher Fry: Venus Observed, The Lady's not for Burning and A Sleep of Prisoners reviewed by

Volume 18 No. 2 Autumn, 1951

The Mystery Cycle (I): Some Towneley Cycle Plays John Speir;'Reason' and the Restoration

Correspondence: Lawrence and Eliot

'Troilus and Cressida' Again

Comments and Reviews

Auden as Critic and Poet: The Enchaf+d Flood by W. H. Auden and Auden: an Introductory Note by Richard Hoggart, reviewed by

Middle English Literature by George Kane, reviewed by

Volume 18 No. 3 Winter, 1951-52

Scott Fitzgerald

'The Dissociation of Sensibility'

Correspondence

The Novel as Dramatic Poem (VII): 'The Rainbow' (I)

Poetic Satire and the Satire in Verse

Comments and Reviews

Mr Pryce-Jones, The British Council and British Culture: Edmund Wilson of 'The New Yorker': Classics and Commercials reviewed by

An Approach to Sophocles: Sophocles the Dramatist by A. J. A. Waldock, and Shakespeare's Tragedies by G. B. Harrison, reviewed by

Shakespeare's Imagery: The Development of Shakespeare's Imagery by W. H. Clemen, reviewed by

Donne Re-considered: The Monarch of Wit by J. B. Leishman, reviewed by

Volume 18 No. 4 June, 1952

The Mystery Cycle (II): Some Towneley Plays

Scott Fitzgerald: Another View

'The Novel as a Dramatic Poem (VII): 'The Rainbow' (II)

Nature, Correctness and Decorum Harold

Comments and Reviews

The Latest Auden: Nones by W. H. Auden, reviewed by

Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Shakespeare and Elizabethan Poetry by M. C. Bradbrook, reviewed by

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