Presents an analysis of modern English writers beginning in 1895.
Contents
A First Scan -- The Best of Times -- Three Publics -- A Narrative Inheritance -- The Tone of Things -- An Education -- The Lawrence Business -- A Pocket Apocalypse -- Armageddon -- Bloomsbury -- Frightful Toil -- A Knot of Critics -- A Dishonest Decade -- Bards and Bard-Watchers.