It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great – the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.


The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad (London: Chatto & Windus, 1948) p. 2

F. R. Leavis Quotes

It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great – the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that...

It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great – the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that...

It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great – the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that...

It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great – the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that...