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Who is the author of The Great Tradition

Leavis, F.R.

British literary critic. Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge University, from 1936 to 1962, and successively visiting professor at a number of British universities, honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and principal founder and editor of the quarterly review of Fine Rendition (1932~1953). His major books include Mass Civilization and Minority Culture (1930), Lawrence (1930), New Directions in English Poetry (1932), Reappraisal (1936, on 17th- to 19th-century English poets), The Great Tradition (1948, on novelists such as Austen, George Eliot, James, Conrad, and others), Lawrence the Novelist (1955), The Anna Karenina and Other Essays (1967), English Literature and the University in Our Time (1969), Dickens the Novelist (1970, co-authored with his wife), and Principles of the Living: the Department of English Literature as a Training of the Mind (1977).