ABSTRACT
London, 1932
Frank Leavis (1895–1978) was at the beginning of a long and influential teaching and writing career when New Bearings was published. Whether Chapter V, on Hopkins, stimulated or irritated readers, its definite moral tone and close analysis seemed to reflect a real movement in critical taste. I have reprinted the second half of the chapter, pp. 180–93, where Leavis turns from attacking Bridges and appreciating ‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’, to an estimate of some of the later poems.
