The Modern Age

Most of this seventh and final volume is devoted to essays dealing in detail with such individual writers as Conrad, E.M. Foster, Henry James, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and D.H. Lawrence.

There are also more general essays on Shaw and the London Theatre, The Comedy of Ideas, the Literature of the First World War, the Irish Contribution, as well as Poetry and the Novel since the Second World War.