Meeting in meaning: philosophy and theory in the work of F.R. Leavis.(Bibliography)

Modern Age | June 22, 2005| | Copyright

WILLIAM WILKINS'S BUILDINGS of Downing College, Cambridge, in his Attic style, are mainly of a warm Ketton stone, from Lincolnshire. Spare of ornament, and enclosing three sides of expansive lawn and broad gravelled pathways, they mark the whole design with "a mixture of vitality and asceticism." This apt phrase comes from an obituary in The Times of 18th April 1978, characterizing not Downing itself but one of its most remarkable former fellows: the literary teacher and critic, F.R. Leavis (1895-1978). Leavis was in many ways the academic glory of Downing in the twentieth ...

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