New Bearings in English Poetry

It seems remarkable now that the “Cambridge Review” had to go outside Cambridge to find a reviewer for “New Bearings in English Poetry” when it was first published in 1932. For Dr Leavis’s estimate of Eliot, Pound, and Hopkins - which seemed so controversial at the time - has since been widely accepted in its general outlines. Many people, therefore, will want to possess one of the major works of modern criticism, a pioneer appreciation of poems like “The Waste Land” and “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” when they were still being widely denounced as obscure, unpoetic nonsense. And for younger people, who may be approaching Hopkins, Eliot, and Pound for the first time, “New Bearings” provides a helpful introduction to these major poets and an appraisal of their originality and vitality in comparison with the late Victorians and Georgians.

Published 1963, Peregrine Book, Y26.

Binding of book is tight. Moderate amount, of wear on covers, and some foxing. Spine is especially aged and a little stained. Sticker on bottom right of front cover, which is slightly bowed. Some tanning and foxing of edges of book. Slight foxing on insides of covers. A few annotations on certain pages. Pages in very good condition.