Quote of the day
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
F. R. Leavis
![F. R. Leavis](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: July 14, 1895
Died: April 14, 1978 (aged 82)
Bio: Frank Raymond "F. R." Leavis was an influential British literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. He taught for much of his career at Downing College, Cambridge and later at the University of York.
Known for:
- The Great Tradition (1948)
- The common pursuit (1952)
- Revaluation (1936)
- New bearings in English poetry (1932)
- Two cultures?