ENGLISH POETRY AND THE MODERN AGE-F.R.LEAVIS
F.R.LEAVIS' "ENGLISH POETRY AND THE MODERN AGE"- A CRITIQUE F.R.LEAVIS 1. F. R .Leavis is a great critic in modern times. He was an English literary critic of the early-to-mid twentieth century. He taught for much of his career at Downing college, Cambridge but often latterly at the University of York. This essay with the title F. R. Leavis’ English Poetry and the Modern Age was originally written in French in 1930. Later Q. D. Leavis translated it French into English. Being a professor of English at Oxford, he did not write any poetry but he had immense theoretical knowledge of poetry in general and the modern poetry specifically This essay has similarity with his another book New Bea...