F. R. Leavis Born : July 14, 1895 Died : April 14, 1978 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by F. R. Leavis Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness. F. R. Leavis emotional literature mean In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are still a minority, though a larger one, who are capable of endorsing such first-hand judgement by genuine personal response. F. R. Leavis appreciation hands art Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means. F. R. Leavis quality experience mean A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying. F. R. Leavis paradise strikes lost The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life. F. R. Leavis tradition novelists fiction The only way to escape misrepresentation is never to commit oneself to any critical judgement that makes an impact - that is, never to say anything. I still, however think that the best way to promote profitable discussion is to be as clear as possible with oneself about what one sees and judges, to try and establish the essential discriminations in the given field of interest, and to state them as clearly as one can (for disagreement, if necessary). F. R. Leavis impact judging thinking 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. F. R. Leavis novelists way art The "great tradition" does not brook even the possibility of libidinal gratification between the pages as an end in itself, and FR Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. F. R. Leavis pages doe fiction
