L. G. Salingar

GENERAL INTRODUCTION I I The publication of this New Pelican Guide to English Literature in many volumes might seem an odd phenomenon at a time when, in the words of the novelist L. H. Myers, a 'deep-seated spiritual vulgarity lies at the heart of our civilization', a time more typically...

GENERAL INTRODUCTION In introducing this Guide to English Literature, it is as well to remember that this is the age of the Digest and the Headline, of the Comic and the Tabloid, of the Bestseller and the Month's Masterpiece, an age when a 'deep-seated spiritual vulgarity lies at the heart of...