F.R. Leavis
F.R. Leavis was born on July 14, 1895. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About F.R. Leavis
Frank Raymond "F. R." Leavis ( LEE-vis; 14 July 1895 – 14 April 1978) was an English literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. He taught for much of his career at Downing College, Cambridge, and later at the University of York. Leavis ranked among the most prominent English-language critics in the 1950s and 1960s. J. B. Bamborough wrote of him in 1963: "it would be true to say that in the last thirty or more years hardly anyone seriously concerned with the study of English literature has not been influenced by him in some way."