{"product_id":"2026100011277-secondhand-revaluation-tradition-development-in-english-poetry","title":"Revaluation: Tradition \u0026 Development In English Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 5th pr.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the twentieth century's most formidable literary critics turns his unflinching gaze upon the English poetic tradition in Revaluation: Tradition \u0026amp; Development in English Poetry, a landmark work that permanently reshaped how scholars and readers engage with canonical verse. F. R. Leavis argues with characteristic rigour and precision that the true line of English poetry runs not through received wisdom and comfortable consensus, but through a demanding standard of vitality, intelligence, and moral seriousness — reassessing figures from Donne and Milton to Keats and Shelley with bracing authority.\n\nA Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, Leavis brought to his criticism an almost evangelical conviction that literature matters profoundly to civilisation, and Revaluation stands as one of the purest expressions of that conviction. His prose is dense yet electric, dismantling reputations and rehabilitating overlooked voices in equal measure, insisting that criticism itself is an act of cultural responsibility. Originally published in 1936 and reissued through Chatto \u0026amp; Windus, the work remains indispensable for anyone who wishes to understand the deep fault lines running beneath the surface of the English literary canon — and to ask, with Leavis, which poets truly earned their place within it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50573253771483,"sku":"2026100011277-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/425694b5-afa2-47f0-9e5e-b68a3908b2c1.png?v=1791167907","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100011277-secondhand-revaluation-tradition-development-in-english-poetry","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}