The larger part of this classic symposium on the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins was originally assembled as a special number of The Kenyon Review to celebrate in 1944 the centenary of the poet's birth, and then published in the New Directions 'Makers of Modern Literature' series.
The larger part of this classic symposium on the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins was originally assembled as a special number of The Kenyon Review to ...
First published by Cambridge in 1979, this text is taken from the 1967 Clark Lectures and is a vigourous defence of the study of English in a modern university.
First published by Cambridge in 1979, this text is taken from the 1967 Clark Lectures and is a vigourous defence of the study of English in a modern u...
Education and the University was first published in 1943; this reissue follows the text of the 1948. The book deals with the problems facing universities in a world in which the demand for specialisation has increasingly overshadowed the ideal of a liberal education. Deeply disturbed by this state of affairs, Leavis puts forward a proposal for a University English School which would offer a programme of liberal studies designed to bring various disciplines into relation without promoting superficiality. This in turn leads him to consider the wider issue of the idea of a university in modern...
Education and the University was first published in 1943; this reissue follows the text of the 1948. The book deals with the problems facing universit...
