“It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.”
Quote by F. R. Leavis
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F. R. Leavis
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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