Sir,—may I Be Allowed To Say With Freimut, Not To
say Hochniut, as one of the worst syntaxists (I bet there's no such word) ever to get into print, how smashing I thought Leavis was on Snow? And how even better Mr. Gerhardi's......
Sta,—1 Am An American Engaged In Research At Cam- Bridge.
I have never met either Sir Charles Snow or Dr. Leavis, though I was familiar with the work of both men before I came to England. I have had no part previously in the......
Sir, —all Dr. Leavis's Nastier , Remarks About Snow Are...
applicable to himself that I can't help feeling his real worry is doubt about his own raison d'être in the literary world. It is Leavis, not Snow, who has a significantly ugly......
Sir,—the False Distinction Between 'arts' On The One Hand...
'Science' on the other seems basically to have arisen from the twentieth century's confusion of science with technology. In Russia no such dis- tinction exists, science is a......
Sir,--according To Dr. Leavis, Snow 'isn't A Novelist At...
This involves the redefinition of a novel as 'a novel approved by Dr. Leavis'—and that makes a pretty restricted class. But novelist or not, Snow has written a number of prose......
Sir,—stuck Like A Bottle Top In A Dustbin One Rhetorical
question shines dimly in Dr. Leavis's text. 'Who,' he asks, after taking a swipe at our jam- smeared working classes, 'will assert that the average member of a modern society is......
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