Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review vol. 2 1933-34

by Edited by F. R. Leavis

• ISBN13: 9780521067805
• ISBN10: 0521067804
• 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 2 No. 1 June, 1933

A Cure for Amnesia

Revaluations (I)

Festivals of Fire

Section II

Evaluations (II): Croce

English Tradition and Idiom

The French Novel of To-day

'Hero and Leader,'

Comments and Reviews;'This Poetical Renascence,'

Songs of Experience, Words for Music Perhaps, reviewed by

Dunbar and the 'Scottish renaissance,'

Donne Not an Elizabethan, The Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, reviewed by

Sixteen Bobs'-Worth of Culture, The English Muse, reviewed by

The Lost Leader, A Study of Wordsworth, reviewed by

Reading About Art, a review by

Dostoevsky or Dickens? Light in August, reviewed by

'Quicunque Vult...,' Essays in Order, reviewed by

In Job's Balances, reviewed by

A Realist Looks at Democracy and If the Blind Lead, reviewed by

Arnold Bennett: American Version, Dreiser and the Land of the Free, reviewed by

Short Notices

Volume 2 No. 2 September, 1933

XXX Cantos of Ezra Pound Ronald Bottrall

Milton's Verse

Scrutiny of Examinations

To Maecenas, a Poem

Will Economics Follow the Robbins Road?

Mr Kitchin on the Insignificance of Economics

Comments and Reviews

'Our Serious Weeklies,'

Flank-Rubbing and Criticism

'The Machine Unchained'

Art and the Negative Impulses, Voyage au Bout de la Nuit, reviewed by

Joyce and 'The Revolution of the Word'

Canons of Giant Art, reviewed by

Battles Long Ago, Conquistador, reviewed by

Literary Quotation and Allusion, and Plagiarism, reviewed by

'Go to the Professors!'

The Christian Renaissance, reviewed by

Film, reviewed by

Moscow Dialogues, etc., reviewed by

Good Intentions in Education, The Educational Frontier, reviewed by

Short Notices

Volume 2 No. 3 December, 1933

On Metaphysical Poetry

French Literary Periodicals

Prospectus for a Weekly

The Criticism of

The Significance of Economics Thus Conceived

Foot-Note to the Above

Sonnet by Gongora and Translation

Revaluations (II): The Poetry of Pope

Comments and Reviews

The Essayist at Large

Mr Eliot at Harvard, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism, reviewed by

The Latest Yeats

Henryson, Chaucer and the 'Scottish Language,' a review by

The Case of Mr Pound, Active Anthology, reviewed by

Lytton Strachey, a review by

Towards Standards of Criticism, reviewed by

Gog-Magog, reviewed by

The First Lord Melchett, a review by

Aspects of the Rise of Economic Individualism, reviewed by

Mr. Christopher Dawson, a note

Social Eddies, Recent Social Trends in the United States, reviewed by

The Rigour of the Game, The Dynamics of Education, reviewed by

Social Development in Young Children, reviewed by

Eddington, Jeans and Sullivan, reviewed by

War: Can the Intelligent Stop It?

Notes on Contributors

Volume 2 No. 4 March, 1934: Editorial

Revaluations (III): Burns

The Scientific Best Seller

The Irony of Swift

What Shall We Teach?

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