Alongside critical articles by Thomas Rymer, Samuel Johnson, Coleridge and A.C. Bradley, John Wain has collected together a wide range of contemporary articles. This edition is brought up-to-date with contemporary essays by John Bayley, Anthony Brennan, Karen Newman and Christopher Norris. Other contributors include T.S. Eliot, G. Wilson Knight, W. Empson, F.R. Leavis, N. Coghill, J. Bayley and C. Norris.