Quote of the day
Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.
F. R. Leavis

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?