The journal Scrutiny was founded in 1932 by

The correct option is F) R. Leavis.

Scrutiny: A Quarterly Review was a highly influential British literary journal founded in Cambridge in 1932. Although it was initially established by a group of scholars including L. C. Knights and Donald Culver, the prominent critic F. R. Leavis, alongside his wife Q. D. Leavis, quickly became the principal editor and the defining intellectual force behind the publication. The journal, which ran until 1953, became the main vehicle for "Leavisite" criticism, promoting rigorous close reading and arguing that the study of literature is central to maintaining cultural and moral health in society.

Here is why the other options are incorrect:
• I. A. Richards was a pioneering Cambridge scholar whose work in modern literary theory and "Practical Criticism" heavily influenced F. R. Leavis, but he did not found or edit Scrutiny.
• Cleanth Brooks and John Crowe Ransom were central figures of the American New Criticism movement. Ransom founded and edited The Kenyon Review, while Brooks was associated with The Southern Review, rather than this Cambridge-based British quarterly.