The Modern Writer and his World: Continuity and innovation in twentieth-century English literatur
Pocketbok. Pelican. 1964. 426 sidor.
Mycket gott skick. Contents: Part one: A background of ideas -- "Modernity" and the historical sense -- Realism, psychology, and experiments in modern novels -- Complexity, allusiveness, irony, obscurity in modern poetry -- "Modernity" in the drama -- Part two: The novel -- Two ancestors -- Indian summer -- The time of transition (1910-1920) -- The "gay" 1920s -- The "serious" 1930s -- Looking back and forward in the 1940s -- The novel in the 1950s -- Part three: The drama -- The weakness of the Victorian age and the 1890s revival -- Suburban domestic drama -- The Irish dramatic revival -- The revival of poetic drama -- The wind of change in the 1950s -- Part four: Poetry -- The 1890s to the First World War -- The 1920s -- The 1930s and the Second World War -- The war years to 1953 -- The 1950s: the movement and the group -- Part five: The trends of criticism -- The Victorian tradition -- The Edwardian interval and the revolution of the 1910s -- Critics from Cambridge -- The prospects today.
