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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.009
EAN num: 9781566631716
ISBN number: 1566631718
Label: Ivan R. Dee, Publishing house
Manufacturer: Ivan R. Dee, Publishing house
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 303
Printing Date: February 25, 1998
Publishing house: Ivan R. Dee, Publishing house
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One of the century's great critics, now back in print. A scrutiny of verse from Donne to Keats, showing the main lines of development in the English tradition...the essential structure. With an Introduction by Paul Dean.
Amazon.com Review:
F.R. Leavis was the most influential literary critic of the English-speaking world in the mid-20th century, and Revaluation, very first published in 1936, is the book that made his name. In the years since, especially with the rise of postmodernism, his style and assumptions have become so unfashionable that to encounter them again is positively exhilarating. Think of Leavis as literary criticism's Roy Orbison--so square, he's hip.
This book surveys a vast swath of English poetry, from Donne to the Victorian Romantics. It famously upgrades Donne and Marvell while showing skepticism towards Milton, and offers a complex treatment of the 'holy trinity' of Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats. Above all, though, it's the best exemplar of Leavis's modus operandi: take particular poems by particular poets, add a rich appreciation of their historical and social circumstances, and try to make convincing judgments about their achievements without deferring to some overarching theory.
Undoubtedly, the Leavis style has dated; if it struck some contemporaries as pedantic and heavy-handed, it seems even more so now. Yet the language is subtle, capable of convoluted yet precise sentences that make unexpected distinctions sharply. Look, for example, at his brilliant analysis of the difference between good and plodding excerpts from Paradise Lost. --Richard Farr
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