Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
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?