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F. R. Leavis
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“A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.”
F. R. Leavis (1895–1978) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry (1936; repr. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964)
“The only way to escape misrepresentation is never to commit oneself to any critical judgement that makes an impact – that is, never to say anything. I still, however think that the best way to promote profitable discussion is to be as clear as possible with oneself about what one sees and judges, to try and establish the essential discriminations in the given field of interest, and to state them as clearly as one can (for disagreement, if necessary).”
F. R. Leavis (1895–1978) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad (London: Chatto & Windus, 1948) p. 1
“It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great – the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.”
F. R. Leavis (1895–1978) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad (London: Chatto & Windus, 1948) p. 2
“Not only is he not a genius; he is intellectually as undistinguished as it is possible to be.”
F. R. Leavis (1895–1978) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nor Shall My Sword: Discourses on Pluralism, Compassion and Social Hope (London: Chatto & Windus, 1972) p. 42.
“He doesn't know what he means, and doesn't know he doesn't know.”
F. R. Leavis (1895–1978) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nor Shall My Sword: Discourses on Pluralism, Compassion and Social Hope (London: Chatto & Windus, 1972) p. 43