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T. S. Eliot and the Life of English Literature

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by F. R. Leavis
A public lecture given on September 30 in the Everyman Theatre Cheltenham at the opening of this year's Literary Festival

It is customary for the Cheltenham Literary Festival to open with a lecture by a distinguished man of letters and this year that role was filled by one of the most authoritative and controversial critics, F. R. Leavis. As his pupils and readers of his books will know, Dr. Leavis highly regards the poetry of . S. Eliot , and Eliot was the central theme in his lecture.

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