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He was born in Grantham , and educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge , where he read History and English, graduating in 1928.

He was a co-editor of '' Scrutiny '', the literary journal of the school of F. R. Leavis 's school, from 1932 to 1953 when it ceased publication.


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  • How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth. An Essay in the Theory and Practice of Shakespeare Criticism (1933)

  • Drama & Society in the Age of Jonson (1937)

  • Explorations: Essays in Criticism Mainly On the Literature of the Seventeenth Century (1946)

  • Poetry, Politics and the English Tradition (1954)

  • Some Shakespearean Themes (1959)

  • An Approach to 'Hamlet' (1960)

  • Shakespeare: The Histories (1962)

  • Further Explorations (1965)

  • Public Voices: Literature and Politics With Special Reference to the Seventeenth Century (1971)

  • Coleridge's Variety: Bicentennial Studies (1974) editor with John Beer

  • Explorations 3: Essays in Criticism (1976)

  • Selected Essays in Criticism (1981)

  • Regulated Hatred and Other Essays on Jane Austen, with D. W. Harding and Monica Lawlor