F.R. Leavis on Chaos and Defeat, in Poetry and Disintegration, ‘Times Literary Supplement'

Founding Editor of ‘Scrutiny’, 1932–53 (an apolitical journal in which all reviews of Auden were written by pupils of Leavis), Leavis (1895–1978) was a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, 1936–62, and Reader in English, Cambridge University, 1960–2. His other books include ‘Revaluation’ (1936), ‘The Great Tradition’ (1948), ‘The Common Pursuit’ (1952), ‘D.H. Lawrence, Novelist’ (1955), and ‘Dickens the Novelist’ (with Q.D. Leavis, 1970).