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Maybe he was averse to lecturing. Some people find it very hard to do. Peter David Boyd <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Lawrence can nonetheless be seen in a broad sense as a religious poet? > > > >Whilst not citing the correspondent, for reason of privacy, this is an interesting impression of Leavis, sent to me privately:- > > > >I saw Leavis lecture once, in Manchester, and I can't recall anything, except that he seemed to be permanently boiling with suppressed anger - it was not clear what about. The highlight was when an 'end of class' bell went off whilst he was reciting a speech from Othello to introduce some point (his lecture had overrun badly). His silent rage was quite a sight..... > > > >On 27 September 2012 18:35, Carrol Cox <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >David Boyd > >> F.R. Leavis during the 1940s in Scrutiny very savagely attacked Bethell - >suspect >> he was a bit of a psychopath, who had feelings of hate towards avowed >Christians >> such as Bethell (although he seems to have exempted T.S. Eliot from his >usual >> venom.) > >Leavis's hero was D.H. Lawrence, hardly a Christian writer. He was always >objectionably irascible, and simply could not understand any attempt to >theorize literature. See his interchange with Wellek. His 'basis' for >reading a text seems to have been a sort of unconscious psedudo mysticism: >One just 'felt' it. Probably his utter inability to understand Dickens is an >index to his perspective. > >Carrol > >