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New Bearings in English Poetry (Paperback, Main)
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New Bearings in English Poetry (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R491
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It is difficult now to imagine the shock that this book caused when
it was first published in 1932. The author was a teacher at a
Cambridge college, an intensely serious man who had been seriously
wounded by poison gas on the Western Front, and he was not disposed
to suffer foolishness gladly. His opening sentences were arresting:
'Poetry matters little to the modern world. That is, very little of
contemporary intelligence concerns itself with poetry'. What
followed was nothing less than the welcoming of a revolution in
English verse, set against the moral and social crisis that
followed the trauma of the First World War. It was this situation,
this feeling of breakdown and disorder, that gave such force to
Leavis's dismissal of most late Romantic poetry and his welcoming
of the modernists T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, and of the writer who
Leavis regarded as their forebear, Gerard Manley Hopkins. The tone
of high moral urgency, and the message that the experience of
literature could become an engagement with life that was almost a
secular equivalent to religion, seemed new and abrasively
refreshing. Leavis despised the reigning dilettantism in both
poetry and criticism, and in this book he threw down the gauntlet
to the establishment as he understood it. In the same year he
founded the journal Scrutiny, and began his long career as the most
formidably serious literary critic of his time.
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