by F. R. Leavis
potts), 194
Edward III, Court of, 197 Egoist, The (George Meredith), 263 Eliot, George, 135 Eliot, T. S., 9-32, 37-38, 41, 43, 45,
301
50, 51, 53, 101, 128, 151, 177, 183,
184, 216, 233-239, 240-247, 251-
254, 278-294, 296 Elizabethans, 142 Elizabethan Theatre, 199-200 Enemy, The ('Note on Belief, by
T. S. Eliot in), 50 England in the Age of Wycliffe (G. M.
Trevelyan), 203 England under the Stuarts (G. M.
Trevelyan), 201 English Folk-Songs from the Southern
Appalachians (Cecil Sharp), 190-191 English Literature and Society in the
XVIlIth Century (Leslie Stephen),
198 English Novelists (edited by Derek
Verschoyle), 233 English Review, The, 236 English Social History (G. M. Trevelyan), 201-203 Epic, 26
'Epistle to Arbuthnot*, 113 'Essay on Man', 104, 113 E. T., 235, 258
Europeans, The (Henry James), 231 Every, Bro. George, 248-254
FAERIE QUEENE, THE, 40
Family Reunion (T. S. Eliot), 249,
287 Fantasia of the Unconscious (D. H.
Lawrence), 245 Fiction and the Reading Public (Q. D.
Leavis), 198
Finnegans Wake (James Joyce), 13 Fletcher, John, 40 For Lancelot Andrewes (T. S. Eliot),
278-281
Forster, E. M., 249, 261-277 'Four Elizabethan Dramatists' (T. S.
Eliot), 177, 283 Fourier, Charles, 224, 230 Four Quartets (T. S. Eliot), 13, 287-
289
Free Man's Worship, A, 128 Freud, Sigmund, 294
'Function of Criticism, The' (T. S. Eliot), 291
GAY, JOHN, 73
Galsworthy, John, 263
Gardner, Miss H. L., 286-287
Garnett, David, 224, 255
Garrick, David, 117
Gascoyne, David, 249-251
Georgians, 293
'Gethsemane* (Rudyard Kipling),
281
'Gerontion' (T. S. Eliot), 11, 291 Gibbon, Edward, 75, 205-206 Gill, Eric, 233 'God's Grandeur' (G. M. Hopkins),
54 Golden Bowl, The (Henry James),
224-230
Goldsmith, Oliver, 112 Graham, Cunninghame, 237 Grand Style, The, 17 Gray, Thomas, 42, 105-107, 112 Gray and Collins (Oxford University
Press), 106
Grierson, Sir Herbert, 33, 41, 42 Gullivers Travels, 73, 74, 78, 80, 84,
85,86
'HABIT OF PERFECTION, THE'
(G. M. Hopkins), 44-4-6, 53-54 Halifax, Marquess of, 191 Hamlet, 163, 164, 201, 203 Harding, D. W., 124, 132-134, 288-
290
Hardy, Thomas, 237 'Harry Ploughman* (G, M. Hopkins),
57,64
Hawkins, Desmond, 249 Hayward, John, 297-298 Hazlitt, William, 160 'Hear tie Voice of the Bard' (William
Blake), 217
Heath-Stubbs, John, 251 'Henry Purcell' (G. M. Hopkins), 58,
71 Herbert, George, 51, 52
History of English Poetry, A (W. J. Johnson, Dr Samuel, 63, 77, 78, 86,
Courthope), 198 97-121, 125, 130, 133
Hogarth, William, 99 Johnson's Dictionary, 104
Homage to John Dryden (T. S. Eliot), Jones, Mrs Duncan, 287
279 Jonson, Ben, 34, 38, 4-0, 42. 52, "7 Home, John, 117 282
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 44-?2, 242 Joyce, James, 284
Horizon, 295-298 'J^s es ' ( G - M - Hopkins), 56, 57 Housman, A. R, 34, 38,242, 281
Howards End (E. M. Forster), 264, KEATS, JOHN, 16, 17 28, 29, 42-44,
268-270, 272 46, 51, 53,185,196 ,
How Many Children had Lady Mac- Kenyon Review, The, 223-224
beth ? (L. C. Knights), 160-161 Ker, Professor W. P., 42
Humanism, 297 Keyes, Sidney, 249
Huxley, Aldous, 233 Keynes, John Maynard, 255-260
Hyperion, 28,43 Kipling, Rudyard, 281
Knight, Professor Wilson, 142, 166,
IBSEN, HENRJtK, 127, 13! I<5 ? . T ^
Imagism, 17 ' l66 » I<5 7» I<5 9» i?o, 200
'Impromptu* (Thomas Gray), 106 Krishna, 288
In Memoriam, 280 t , ,
Indian Philosophy, 222 L A 1 LL ^ RO 1 ' 34 " 35
Industrial Revolution, 192 Lam }>> Char es > 28 3
Instructions to Servants (Jonathan Landor, Walter Savage, 285
Swift), 86 Lawrence, D, H., 72, 129, 182, 194, 'Intimations of Immortality, Ode on 2 33-239, 240247, 251, 255-260,
tke' 3I 262-263, 282, 284
'Introduction to Songs of Experience' Lawrence D. H.; A Personal Record
(William Blake), 216-217 ( K T >)> 2 * 8
Introduction to these Paintings (D. H. fawrence, J. £.,152
Lawrence) 237 Leaden Echo and The Golden Echo,
Irene (Samuel Johnson), 117-119 The ' ( G * M « H °P kins )» 58, 64
V ; * Leavis,F.R.,28,36,38,42,H2,2 5 i,
297
JACOBEANS, 283 Lesson of the Master, The (Henry James Family, The (F. O. Matthiessen), James), 231
229 L'Estrange, Sir Roger, 192
James, Henry, 38, 197, 198, 223-232, Les Trappeurs de /' 'Arkansas (Gustave
255, 263-264 Aimard), 176
James, Henry, Senior, 224 Le ve t, Robert, 105, ill, 117
James, William, 38 Le W i s> Professor C, Day, 182, 185
John Bunyan: Maker of Myths (Jack Lewis, C. S., 97
Lindsay), 204 »$ j^^ Wyndham, 238, 240-247, 284
John Bunyan: Mechanick {Preacher Liberalism, 129,240
(William York Tindall), 204 Life and Letters (Desmond Mac-John of Gaunt, 195 Carthy), 279
303
Lindsay, Jack, 204, 205, 208-210 Literature and Pulpit in Mediaeval
England (G. R. Owst), 207 'Little Gidding* (T. S. Eliot), 249,
288-290 Lives of the Poets (Samuel Johnson),
114 'Locksley Hall sixty years after*
(Tennyson), 197
'London* (Samuel Johnson), 101,117 London School of Economics, 182 Longest Journey, The (E. M. Forster),
264-268
'Loss of the Royal George*, 60 'Lycidas*, 39, 4*. 63, 113 Lyrical Ballads, 31
MACCARTHY, DESMOND, l6o, 279
Macaulay, Rose, 261, 263 Macbeth, 63, 121, 123-126 Maidand, Frederic William, 260 Mallarme, St^phane, 288 Mankowitz, C. W., 286, 291 Mans Unconquerable Mind (R. W.
Chambers), 166 'Marina* (T. S. Eliot), 18 Marlowe, Christopher, 40, 282 Marriages, The (Henry James), 264 Marvell, Andrew, 42, 93, 191, 282 Marx, Karl, 204 Marxism, 182-185, *9 2 > 2 °4i 2 °9» 2 59»
276
Massinger, Philip, 280 Matthiessen, F. O., 229 Maulc's Curse (Yvor Winters), 203 Measure for Measure, in, 112, 157,
160-172
Mediaeval Latin Verse, 71 Memoirs (J. M. Keynes), 255-260 Mencken, Henry Lewis. 234-235 Men of Letters and the English Public
in the XVIIIth century (Akxandre
Beljame), 198 Meredith, George, 201,203,242, 263,
264
Metaphysical School, 33, 78, 200 Middle Ages, The, 195, 207
Middleton, Thomas, 42, 283
Milford, Sir Humphrey, 60
Mill, John Stuart, 201
Miller, Henry, 284
Milton, John, 153, 218, 252-253, 285-
286, 291 Mind in Chains, The (Cecil Day
Lewis), 182 Modest Proposal, A (Jonathan Swift),
74,77
Montaigne, 179 'Mont Blanc* (P. B. Shelley), 220-
221
Moore, G. E., 256-258 Moore, Henry, 249 Morality Plays, 167 More, P. E., 234-235 Mornings in Mexico (D. H. Lawrence),
245 Mourning Bride, The (William Con-
greve), no Munich, 286 Murder in the Cathedral (T. S. Eliot),
252, 278
Murray, Professor Gilbert, 38, 194 Murry, Middleton, 242 Myers, L. H., 275-276 Mysticism and Logic (Bertrand Russell),
128
NATURAUSM, 197, 198
Napoleon, 153
Nazism, 286
Negro Slavery, 99-100
New Cambridge Shakespeare, 160
New England, 203
New Republic, The, 205
New Statesman and Nation, The, 157
New Testament, The, 166
Nicholson, Norman, 252
Nietzsche, 131
Nightwood (Djuna Barnes), 284
Notebooks of Henry James, 230
'ODE TO AUTUMN', 16,17, 28, 46 'Ode to a Nightingale*, 39 'Ode to the West Wind', 220
THE COMMON PURSUIT
Old Drama and the New, The (William
Archer), 177 O'Neill, Eugene, 127 On Writing and Writers (Sir Walter
Raleigh), 196 Original Sin, 246
Othello, 128, 131, 136-159, 175, 177 'Other Kingdom* (E, M. Forster),
263
Owst, Gerald, 205, 207 Oxford, 97,100, 295 Oxford Book of XVIIIth Century
Verse, The, 116
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 113 Oxford Book ofXVIIth Century Verse,
The, 34 Oxford Standard Texts, 116,117
'PALACE OF ART, THE' (Alfred
Lord Tennyson), 29 Paleface (Wyndham Lewis), 243-244 Palgrave, Francis Turner, 34 Paradise Lost, 13, 15, 17, 19, 20, 32,
37, US, 153 Passage to India, A (E. M. Forster),
272-273, 277 Passos, Dos, 233 Pater, Walter, 48 Pericles, Prince of Tyre, 177 Philosophy, 211-222 Phillpotts, Dame Bertha, 194 Phoenix (D. H. Lawrence), 233, 244 Piccarda de Donati, 121 Pilgrims Progress, The, 188,189, 206*
207, 210 Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
(edited by Robert Bridges), 52,61,
62
Poetical Sketches (William Blake), 192 Poetic Renaissance, 293 Poetics, The (Aristode), 126 Poetry and Personal Responsibility (Bro.
George Every), 248-249 Poets of the IXth Century (A. H. Miles),
82 Polite Conversation (Jonathan Swift),
86
Pope, Alexander, 38,39,73,84,88-96, 104,113*117, 191,192,282
Pope (Leslie Stephen) in 'The English Men of Letters' series, 91
Portrait of a Lady (T. S. Eliot), n
Portrait of a Lady, The (Henry James), 230-231,263
Pound, Ezra, 17
Practical Criticism (I. A. Richards), 241
Preface to The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (ed. Robert Bridges), 72
Preface to Notes on The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (ed. Robert Bridges), 62
Preface to Shakespeare (Samuel Johnson), ioo, 108, 109, no
Prelude, The, 219, 221
Principles of Literary Criticism, The (L A. Richards), 134-135
Project for Advancement of Religion, A (Jonathan Swift), 85
'Prolusions' (John Milton), 35
Prometheus the Firegiver (Robert Bridges), 68
Promos and Cassandra (George Whetstone), 169
Prose Literature since Jtpjp (John Hay-ward), 297
Prujrock, The Love Song of J. Alfred (T. S. Eliot), 293
Puritanism, 203
Psycho-analysis, 204
QUAKERS, 99,206 Quennell, Peter, 233 Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur, 113
RACINE, 127
Rajan, Dr B., 278-280, 287-290
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 196
Ranters, 206
'Rape of the Lock, The', 104, 1x3
Rasselas (Samuel Johnson), 115
Rationalism, Cambridge, 255-256*
'R. B., To' (G. M. Hopkins), 57
Read, Herbert, 74, 249, 251
Reformation, The, 207
305
Renaissance, The, 126 Restoration, The, 186, 191, 235 Revaluation (F. R. Leavis), 12, 92,112 Revelation (T. S. Eliot), 238 Richards, Dr I. A., 134,135, 240, 824 Richardson, Samuel, 107 Ridler, Anne, 290-291 Rise of the Greek Epic, The (Professor
Gilbert Murray), 194 Robinson Crusoe, 73-74 Rock The (T. S. Eliot), 278 Romantics, 29,104,165,183,185,216 Romeo and Juliet, 142-149, 164, 171 Room with a View, A (E. M. Forster),
261-264 Root and the Flower, The (L. H. Myers),
277
Rosenberg, Isaac, 124, 133 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 44, 47-49, 6% Russell, Bertrand, 128, 129 'Ruined Cottage, The* (William
Wordsworth), 14
SACRED WOOD THE (T. S. EllOt), 12, 279, 280
'Sailing to Byzantium* (W. B.
Yeats), 14
Samson Agonistes, 22, 23 Samuel Johnson (J. W. Krutch), 97-
115.
Santayana, George, 121-135 Savile, George, see Halifax, Marquess
of
Sayers, Dorothy, 97, 278 'Scholar-Gypsy, The,' 29, 30, 54 Schopenhauer, 22 Schucking, L. L., 195-199 Science and the Modem World (A. N.
Whitehead), 220 Scrutiny, 133, 173, 200,211, 223, 250
288 'Sea and the Skylark, The* (G. M.
Hopkins), 55
Selected Essays (T. S. Eliot), 282 Seneca, 123,127, 128,130 Shadow of Cain, The (Edith Sitwell),
296
Shakespeare, William, 38, 40, 42, 43,
100, 101, 108-113, 117-118, 121-
128, 130-159, 179, 191, 199, 203,
208, 231, 236 Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca
(T. S, Eliot), 128,151 Shakespeare's Final Period (Lytton
Strachey), 179 Shakespearean Tragedy (A. C. Bradley,
136-140, 143, 147, 159 Sharp, Cecil 190-191 Shaw, George Bernard, 156 ShelburneEssaySyThe (P. E. More), 235 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 29,3 8,111,112,
185, 216, 220-222 Sherman, Professor, 234 'Short Song of Congratulation, A*
(Samuel Johnson), 117 Sidgwick, Henry, 259 Sidney, Sir Philip, see Arcadia Sitwell, Edith, 251, 296, 298 Sitwell Edith (C. M. Bowra), 298 Sitwell, Sir Osbert, 296 Sitwells, The, 16, 296-297 Smith, Professor Gregory, 34 Sociology, 195-203 Sociology of Literary Taste The (L. L.
Schucking), 195 Son of Woman (Middleton Murry),
242
Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence), 258 Spectator, The, 103, 185 'Spelt from Sybil's Leaves' (G. M.
Hopkins), 67
Spenser, Edmund, 29, 38, 40, 42, 196 Spirit of Man, The (Robert Bridges),
46, 60, 62 'Spring and Fall' (G. M. Hopkins),
45, 46, 62
Sprung Rhythm, 71-72 Stephen, Leslie, 91, 93, 198, 260 Stephenson, Fr. A. A., 173-176, 178 Steuert, Dom Hilary, 106 Stoicism, 123, 128,151 StoU, E. E., 155,156,158,159 Strachey, Lytton, 75, 97, 179, 205,
206, 259, 260, 276
THE COMMON PURSUIT
Studies in Classical American Literature
(D. H. Lawrence), 233 Study of Thomas Hardy (D. H. Lawrence), 237
Sutherland, Professor, 88-89 Swedenborg, Emmanuel, 224, 230,
232
Swift, Jonathan, 73-87,89,93,98,284 Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 28, 49, 69,152, 160, 283
TALE OF A TUB, A, 79, 80, 85
Tatler, The, 103, 185 Tempest, The, 169,179-181 Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 16, 28, 29,
34, 42, 44-49, 5i, 52,197 Testament of Beauty, The (Robert
Bridges), ii, 253 Thackeray, William Makepeace, 73,
197
Thomson, James, 42 Thomas Cranmer (Charles Williams),
252
Thomas, Dylan, 249, 251 Thrale, Mrs, 98, 99, 115, 116 'Tiger, The' (William Blake), 187 TiUyard, E. M. W., 21,25, 33, 34, 37 Time and Western Man (Wyndham
Lewis), 243 Times Literary Supplement, The, 293-
296
Tindall, William York, 204-208 Tinkler, F. C., 173,174, 178 Tolstoy, Count Leo, 197 'Tom's Garland' (G. M. Hopkins),
57,70
Toryism, Johnson's, 98-99 Tourneur, Cyril, 42, 283-284 Tradition and the Individual Talent
(T. S. Eliot), 184 Tragedy, 121-135 Tragic Philosophy (George Santayana),
121-135 'Tragic Theatre, The' (W. B. Yeats),
131 Travels in Arabia Deserta (Charles M.
Doughty), 71
Traversi, D. A., 132, 175, *7&
Trevelyan, G. M., 201-203
'Triumphal March' (T. S. Eliot), 286
Troilus and Cressida (William Shakespeare), 164
Tupper, Martin, 59
Turn of the Screw, The (Henry James), 230
Twickenham edition of Pope, The, 88
Two Gentlemen of Verona, The, 255
'UNFORTUNATE LADY, VERSES TO
THE MEMORY OF AN' (Alexander
Pope), 113
Unicorn, TJie (Isaac Rosenberg), 133 University College, Nottingham,
235-236 Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ,
The (T. S. Eliot), 241, 281
'VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES, THE' (Samuel Johnson), 101, in, 117, 118
Verschoyle, Derek, 233
Victorian Age, 54, 59
'Vision of Mermaids, A' (G. M. Hopkins), 44
Voltaire, 8o> 156
WALDOCK, PROFESSOR A. J. A., 20-
27,32
Warner, Rex, 249
Washington Square (Henry James),
230-231 Waste Land, The (T. S. Eliot), 11,
286, 287, 293 Webster, Sir Charles, 260 Webster, John, 127 Wellek, Dr Ren6, 211-222 Wells, H. G., 192, 233, 234, 263, 285 What is a Classic? (T. S. Eliot), 291 WhatMaisieKnew (HenryJames), 231 Wheel of Fire, The (Wilson Knight),
142, 166, 170
Wheelwright, Philip, 286, 291 * When the lamp is shattered * (Shelley),
221
307
Where Angels fear to tread (E. M.
Forster), 261-264 Whibley, Charles, 73, 80, 97 Whitehead, A. N., 220 White Peacock, The (D. H. Lawrence),
255
Whitman, Walt, 64 Williams, Charles, 249, 252, 253 'Windhover, The* (G.M.Hopkins),
58 Wings of the Dove, The (Henry James),
224, 226-228, 229 Winter's Tale, The, 158, 174, 175,
177, 179-iSi Winters, Yvor, 203 Wodehouse, P. G., 97
Woolf, Virginia, 38
Wordsworth, William, 14,29, 31, 35,
42, 185, 192, 216, 219 Work in Progress (James Joyce), 284 World of William Clissold, The (H. G.
Wells), 234, 284 'Wreck of the Deutschland, The*
(G. M. Hopkins), 51. 55* 58, 59,6*0 Writings of E. M. Forster, The (Rose
Macaulay), 261 Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 291
YEATS, w. B., 14, 38, 66, 131, 296 Yellow Book, The, 250
ZOLA, EMILE, 197, 198
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