ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In addition to his profound influence upon his pupils, Leavis wrote several major critical works, among them Revaluation (1936), The Great Tradition (1948), and The Common Pursuit (1952), which won him an international following.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Leavis Method of literary criticism approached literature from an objective lens. The goal of literature was to humanize and civilize people. The text should be read and analyzed through close reading, which demonstrated a scientific approach to literary analysis.

Detailed explanation-3: -F.R Leavis believed that poetry came so naturally to John Keats that it looked like fruits growing on a tree. He agrees to Keats’s opinion that some problems in this world can never be solved by us. Imagination is under control of God and it is better for human beings that they do not try to understand such things.

Detailed explanation-4: -Leavis, typically used as a pejorative reference to an approach to literature and culture associated by critics with cultural elitism, high culture, nostalgia for traditional pre-industrial society, moral judgements, and hostility to Marxism, ‘commercialism’, and mass society.