The Modern Age

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Canonical title

The Modern Age

Original publication date

1961 (First Edition) (First Edition); 1963 (Second Edition) (Second Edition); 1964 (Second Edition, corrected) (Second Edition, corrected)

People/Characters

Matthew Arnold; W. H. Auden; Samuel Beckett; Arnold Bennett; Joseph Conrad; Walter de la Mare (show all 31); George Eliot; T. S. Eliot; William Empson; E. M. Forster; Robert Graves; Graham Greene; Thomas Hardy; Aldous Huxley; Henry James; James Joyce; D. H. Lawrence; F. R. Leavis; Wyndham Lewis; George Orwell; Ezra Pound; T. F. Powys; George Bernard Shaw; C. P. Snow; J. M. Synge; Dylan Thomas; Edward Thomas; Evelyn Waugh; H. G. Wells; Virginia Woolf; William Butler Yeats

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GENERAL INTRODUCTION

This is the final volume of the Pelican Guide to English Literature.

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INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION, 1963

The rapid sales of this final volume of the Guide have not only made the preparation of a new edition necessary within a year, but have enable the publishers to enlarge t... (show all)he size of the volume even though it is already the largest of the series.

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THE SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL BACKGROUND
G. H. Bantock,Professor of Education, the University of Leicester
Introduction: THe writer's predicament
When Logan Pearsall Smith confessed to Henry James that he... (show all) whished to do the best he could with his pen, James replied that, if such was the case, 'There is one word -- let me impress upon you -- which you must inscribe upon your banner, and that word is Loneliness.'