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“Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.”

Quote by F. R. Leavis

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F. R. Leavis was a British literary critic and academic, a key figure in the New Criticism movement. His work focused on the close reading of literary texts and the importance of the text itself rather than the author's biography or the historical context. more

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