The Great Tradition

First US edition
(publ. George W. Stewart)

The Great Tradition is book of literary criticism written by F R Leavis, published in 1948 by Chatto & Windus. In his work, Leavis names Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James, and Joseph Conrad as the great English novelists. In all these eight, including Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hermann Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, we have successors of Shakespeare. [1]

References

  1. ↑ Storer, Richard (2009). F.R. Leavis. Routledge. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-20301-535-3.


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