Valuation in criticism and other essays

Cambridge University Press

1986

vii, 309 p.

Bibliography: p. 302-305.

978-0521312103

Contents: T.S. Eliot -- a reply to the condescending -- D.H. Lawrence -- The influence of Donne on modern poetry -- William Empson: intelligence and sensibility -- Marxism and cultural continuity -- 'Under which king, Bezonian?' -- Restatements for critics -- Felix Holt, the radical -- George Eliot's Zionist novel -- Nostromo, a foreword -- Henry James's first novel: Roderick Hudson -- Yeats: the problem and the challenge -- Lawrence after thrity years -- Shaw against Lawrence -- Genius as critic -- T.S. Eliot's influence -- T.S. Eliot and the life of English literature -- Dr. Richards, Bentham and Coleridge -- The literary discipline and liberal education -- The responsible critic: or the function of criticism at any time -- Literary studies: a reply -- 'Scrutiny': a retrospect -- Standards of criticism -- Reading out poetry -- Valuation in criticism -- Thought, meaning and sensibility: the problem of value judgement.

This volume gathers together some of F. R. Leavis's earliest work with the things he was working on before his death, as well as a representative sample of pieces reflecting the concerns he developed throughout his writing life. This material, from the whole span of a long writing career, shows both the continuity of his pre-occupations and important respects in which his judgements changed. In an introductory essay Professor Singh discusses each piece and relates it to the development of Leavis's ideas. The reader can trace his concern for standards of critical valuation as it evolved through studies of T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, William Empson, George Eliot, Henry James, W. B. Yeats, I. A. Richards and others. Leavis's well-known reflections on Marxism are also included.

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