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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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F.R. Leavis
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(Frank Raymond Leavis, 1895–1978) Critic who had great influence on the teaching of English literature in the mid-20C, insisting on moral seriousness as an essential yardstick of an author's importance, and demanding from the student close attention to the text rather than a biographical interest in the author. The poets who received his highest acclaim in New Bearings in English Poetry (1932) were Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and to a lesser extent W.B. Yeats; the novelists to emerge in the same way from The Great Tradition (1948) were Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad. D.H. Lawrence was championed in a book of 1955, and Dickens was re-evaluated (having earlier been dismissed) in a work of 1970.
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