内容简介
F. R. Leavis died in 1978 and his wife Q. D. Leavis in 1981, and with their deaths ended one of the most pro ductive and in fluent ial literary partnerships in the language. This volume is a collection of re mi niscences by people who knew Queenie Leavis as fellow students at Girton, were early pupils of Frank Raymon Leavis, collaborated in the editing of Scrutiny, or were colleagues or friends later. The collection, which is illustrated, is full of rich and fresh biographical info rmation. Since it covers such a wide span, it brings out the contrast between the young couple at the beginning of their care ers, good-looking, hopeful and confident; and the embattled veterans in se emingly endless conflict even with their friends and supporters. It also suggests the mercurial nature of both, since they could seem so widely different to different people, and to the very end both could e x ert formidable charm. Denys Thompson, who edited this volume, was an early pupil of Leavis's, and collaborated with him on Culture and Environment in the 1930s.
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