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R. Leavis
English literary critic (–)
Frank Raymond "F. R." LeavisCH (LEE-vis; 14 July – 14 April ) was an English 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.
Leavis ranked among the most prominent English-language critics in the s and s.[1]J.
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B. Bamborough wrote of him in "it would be true to say that in the last thirty or more years hardly anyone seriously concerned with the study of English literature has not been influenced by him in some way."[2]
According to Clive James, "You became accustomed to seeing him walk briskly along Trinity Street, gown blown out horizontal in his slipstream.
He looked as if walking briskly was something he had practised in a wind-tunnel."[3]
Early life and education
Leavis was born in Cambridge in to Harry Leavis (–) and Kate Sarah Moore (–).
His father was a cultured man who ran a shop i