Within F.R Leavis' The Great Tradition, Leavis presents clear and consistent criticism. Although his points are definitely biased, and I don't agree with all the statements he makes, it is evident in this work that Leavis is indeed great at articulating and embodying the authors that he both envies and adores so much.

Within The Great Tradition, Leavis is purposefully evaluative of certain writers. It is clear that he holds individuality, and the appreciation of life, high on his list of criteria for great writers. This is evident when Leavis writes "the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote: awareness of the possibilities of life." (Leavis, 602) He greatly praises Lawrence and Austen...