.... — Santayana Santayana the Augustan In his farewell address to Downing College, Cambridge, a sixty-eight-year-old F. R. Leavis, bade goodbye to his colleagues and students with a wry nod to the philosopher, poet, and novelist George Santayana. Casting the mantle of aesthetics to Santayana...

... by the audacity of Hopkins’s style and in- tent on foregrounding expression over content, steer the poetic as- sessment away from doctrine. “Remarkable as The Wreck of the Deutschland is,” writes F. R. Leavis in 1932, “it does not put his technical skill to the utmost stretch. This skill is most...