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Orwell And Leavis

The part played by Orwell is well known and I do not need to describe it here. It reposed O an honest common sense, which stripped off the cotton-wool of jargon to leave the......

The Intellectuals Of England

By ANTHONY HARTLEY NY account of the activities of English in- tellectuals after 1945 should properly begin With some definition of their status in English society and some......

Against The Thirties

For some time after the war the intellectuals, while reacting against the revolutionary roman- ticism of the Thirties, were prepared to recognise in the evolution of their......