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“Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.”

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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