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F. R. Leavis Quotes

1895–1978

Frank Raymond Leavis CH (14 July 1895 – 14 April 1978) was a twentieth century English literary critic and academic, who worked primarily at Downing College, Cambridge UK.

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A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.

Not only is he not a genius; he is intellectually as undistinguished as it is possible to be.

He doesn't know what he means, and doesn't know he doesn't know.

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.

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