“A powerful critical talent who destroyed his own sense of proportion, Leavis was our brush with totalitarianism: we caught it as a mild fever instead of the full attack of meningitis. His career was the clearest possible proof that the course the arts take is not under the control of criticism.”

Clive James From the Land of Shadows (London: Picador, 1983) p. 206.
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British literary critic 1895–1978

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