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I must thank Dr Wellek for bringing fundamental criticism to my work, and above all for raising in so complete a way an issue that a reviewer or two had more or less vaguely touched on — an issue of which no one can have been more conscious than myself who had seen the recognition of it as an essential constituent of what I naturally (whatever the quality of my performance) hoped for: an appreciation of my undertaking. Dr Wellek points out, justly, that in my dealings with English poetry I have made a number of assumptions that I neither defend nor even state: ‘I could wish’, he says, ‘that you had made your assumptions more explicitly and defended them systematically.’ …
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Newton, K.M. (1997). F. R. Leavis: ‘Literary Criticism and Philosophy’. In: Newton, K.M. (eds) Twentieth-Century Literary Theory. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_9
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