F. R. Leavis

Frank Raymond Leavis (July 14, 1895 - April 14, 1978) was an influential British literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. He taught and studied for nearly his entire life at Downing College, Cambridge.

Partial list of works

• Mass Civilization and Minority Culture (1930)
• New Bearings in English Poetry: A Study of the Contemporary Situation (1932, 2d ed., 1950)
• Scrutiny, Editor (1932-1951)
• Culture and Environment: The Training of Critical Awareness, with Denys Thompson (1933)
• Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry (1936)
• Education and the University: A Sketch for an "English School" (1943, 2d ed., 1948)
• The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad (1948)
• The Common Pursuit (1952)
• D. H. Lawrence: Novelist (1955)
• Two Cultures? The Significance of C. P. Snow (1962)
• Anna Karenina and other essays (1967)
• English Literature in Our Time and the University (1969)
• Dickens the novelist, With Q D Leavis (1970)
• Nor Shall My Sword: Discourses on Pluralism, Compassion, and Social Hope (1972)
• The Living Principle: "English" as a Discipline of Thought (1975)
• Thought , Words and Creativity: Art and Thought in D H Lawrence (1976)
• The Critic as Anti-Philosopher