F.R. Leavis Replies to Higinbotham, ‘Scrutiny': Summer 1943, vol. xi, 261–7

Leavis (1895–1978) was the foremost critic of his generation in England. Eliot’s work was one of his major preoccupations, from ‘New Bearings in English Poetry’ (1932) to ‘The Living Principle’ (1975). An excellent introduction to Leavis’s life and work is Edward Greenwood’s pamphlet, ‘F.R. Leavis’, written for the British Council and published in 1978.