Scrutiny was first issued quarterly from Cambridge between 1932 and 1953, the principal editor throughout being Dr Leavis. It is now recognized as a formative influence on English intellectual and cultural life worthy to rank with the great reviews of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This reissue is of the 1963 combined set, including a final volume containing an important Retrospect by Dr Leavis and a substantial analytical index. Scrutiny offers an almost complete critical history of English literature from Chaucer to the mid-twentieth century. Medieval literature, Shakespeare, the seventeenth-century poets, Pope, Dryden, Johnson, the great romantics, the Victorians, and nearly all the important modern writers are seriously examined. Many of the articles have become classics, and resulted in revisions of previously accepted views. An important feature of Scrutiny, still of great interest, is the book review section, where many of the important books of the time, and some of the pretentious ones too, were reviewed as they appeared.

Table of Contents:
Volume 7 No. 1 June 1938: The Modern Universities: A Postscript; 'Cymbeline'; The Apotheosis of Post-Impressionism; Wordsworth: A Preliminary Survey; William Dunmar; Correspondence: Exact Thought and Inexact Language; Comments and Reviews; Gissing and the English Novel; 'Femina-Vie Heureuse' Please Note, I'm Not Complaining; Kafka's Life; Left-wing Allegories; The Poet and His Readers; The Education of Girls; The Academic Mind on the Seventeenth Century, Seventeenth Century Studies; In Defence of Milton, Milton and Wordsworth and The Miltonic Setting; Aristocracy and the Middle Classes in Germany; Mr. Turner's Mozart; Berlioz: A Prophetic Romantic; Note on Gramophone Records; Volume 7 No. 2 September 1938: The Philosophy of Marxism; Baudelaire; The Composer and Civilisation (II): Albert Roussel and La Musique Francaise; E. M. Forster; Comments and Reviews; Music: Van Dieren and Rubbra; Caterpillars of the Commonwealth Unite! Three Guineas; The T. E. Hulme Myth; Hopkins and Patmore, Further Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins; Mr. Spender's Play, Trial of a Judge; The Poet of Revolution, Arthur Rimbaud and Rimbaud in Abyssinia; Rainer Maria Rilke; Aids to English Teaching, Poetry in Practice and English Poetry: A Students Anthology; A History of Economic Thought; Busoni's Letters to his Wife; Volume 7 No. 3 December 1938: 'The New Republic' and the Ideal Weekly; Henry James's Heiress: The Importance of Edith Wharton; 'The Great and Good Corneille,' Martin Turnell; 'Troilus and Cressida,'; Revaluations (XI): Arnold as Critic; Comments and Reviews; Ivor Gurney and the English Art-Song; Defending Letters, Defense des lettres and translation; The Press; Education, Writing and Action, Writing and Action; Poetry and Anarchism; Mr. Chase on Words, The Tyranny of Words; The Significance of Kafka, America; Auden and Isherwood, On the Frontier; 'Human Nature' in Society, Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies; Volume 7 No. 4 March 1939: The American Cultural Scene (I) Political Thought; 'Wuthering Heights,'; Music in the Melting Pot: Charles Ives and the Music of the Americas; Leslie Stephen: Cambridge Critic; Giovanni Papini and Italian Literature; Correspondence: The 'PEP' Report on the Press; Comments and reviews; A 'Corresponding Bureau'?; Social Relationships, The Clue to History; The Historian's Task; The Progress of Poetry, Modern Poetry and The Year's Poetry; The Fate of Edward Thomas; Hart Crane From This Side, The Collected Poems of Hart Crane; Hoelderlin; Nineteenth-Century Scotland in Allegory, The House with the Green Shutters; Ruth Adam Again, There Needs No Ghost; Shakespeare Criticism, Approach to Shakespeare; Educational, Education and Society; Rimbaud, Le Lyrisme de Rimbaud; Mallarme: Life and Art; Beggars on Horseback; The Textual Criticism of Music.