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English Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, English Poetry - 20th Century - Literary Criticism, Sociolinguistics, Literary Theory - General & Miscellaneous, Language & Linguistics, U.S. & Canadian Poetry - 20th Centu
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The Living Principle

by F. R. Leavis
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Overview

One of the century's great critics, now back in print. Leavis's central preoccupation here is the nature of thought and language, and the way in which thoughts are expressed in language.

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Library Journal

In this trio, published in 1983, 1975, and 1947, respectively, the great British literary critic analyzes poetry from Milton and Pope to the Romantics on up to T.S. Eliot. LJ's reviewer commented that the "pieces illustrate Leavis's perception of himself as one who [tries] to communicate `with consummate delicacy...the creative work of a great writer' and who saw as his duty the Sisyphean labor of `reestablishing an educated reading public' " (LJ 2/1/83). More for the academic crowd.

Book Details

Published
December 1, 1986
Publisher
New York : Oxford University Press, 1975.
Pages
264
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780195198249

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