( Frank Raymond Leavis 1895–1978)
an English literary critic. He taught at Cambridge University from 1936 to 1962 and started the magazine Scrutiny (1932–53). In his books New Bearings on English Poetry (1932) and The Great Tradition (1948) he helped to establish modern ideas on the work of such writers as Gerard Manley Hopkins , T S Eliot , Henry James and D H Lawrence .