title: The Essayistic Spirit: Literature, Modern Criticism, and the Essay
author:  Claire de Obaldia 
description: <br />"Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above."--<em>Choice</em>
zlib_text: NUNC COCNOSCO EX PARTE 
  THOMASJ. BATA LIBRARY 
  TRENT UNIVERSITY 
  
  Digitized by the Internet Archive 
  in 2019 with funding from 
  Kahle/Austin Foundation 
  https://archive.org/details/criticasantiphilOOOOIeav 
  
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  THE CRITIC AS ANTI-PHILOSOPHER 
  
  Also by F. R. Leavis 
  NEW BEARINGS IN ENGLISH POETRY 
  REVALUATION 
  EDUCATION AND THE UNIVERSITY 
  THE GREAT TRADITION 
  THE COMMON PURSUIT 
  D. H. LAWRENCE: NOVELIST 
  ‘ANNA KARENINA’ AND OTHER ESSAYS 
  ENGLISH LITERATURE IN OUR TIME AND 
  THE UNIVERSITY 
  NOR SHALL MY SWORD 
  LETTERS IN CRITICISM 
  THE LIVING PRINCIPLE 
  THOUGHT, WORDS AND CREATIVITY 
  with Q. D. Leavis 
  LECTURES IN AMERICA 
  DICKENS THE NOVELIST 
  
  THE CRITIC AS 
  ANTI-PHILOSOPHER 
  Essays & Papers 
  by F. R. LEAVIS 
  Edited by G. Singh 
  1i 
  THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS 
  ATHENS 
  
  © Robin Leavis, G. Singh 
  Executors F. R. and Q. D. Leavis Estate, 1982 
  All rights reserved. 
  Photoset, printed and bound in Great Britain. 
  Published in 1983 in the United States 
  of America by the University of 