A thorough survey of English literature from the Victorian poets, essayists, novelists, and dramatists to the outstanding figures in every genre on the present-day scene, with a special section devoted to the renaissance in Irish letters.

Included are invaluable synopses and commentaries on all major and many minor works ; useful, information-packed biographies of major and lesser figures ; and a detailed examination of all important literary trends. This is the third in a series of three volumes tracing the history of English literature from its earliest beginnings to the present.

Martin S. Day was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins, where he received his Ph.D. degree.

梁實秋先生推崇 Martin S. Day 的 History of English Literature 「在英文寫的英國文學教科書中，......是最充實最清楚的一部。」本書包含作家的簡介，作品的提要以及文藝思潮和文化歷史背景分析。內容詳瞻，文筆流暢，二十年來廣為國內外大學英文系所採用。此一版本為本公司獲得授權對海內外發行之國際版。