Frank Raymond Leavis bol vplyvný britský literárny kritik. Svoju kariéru strávil prevažne na Downing College v Cambridge. Jeho kritické analýzy sa zameriavali na hlbšie pochopenie literárneho diela. Leavisov odkaz spočíva v jeho dôraze na intelektuálne a morálne hodnoty literatúry.
'The great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.' So begins F. while Lawrence Sterne, Henry Fielding, and James Joyce are among those weighed in the balance and found wanting. '[Leavis] gave one a new idea of what it meant to read...
Tradition & Development in English Poetry
An essay by Leavis on Snow, with a new preface for the American reader, and then an essay by Yudkin on Snow's Rede Lecture.