In this fascinating new book, Laurence Lerner vividly contrasts the contempt with which twentieth-century criticism so often dismisses such works as mere sentimentality with the enthusiasm and tears of nineteenth-century contemporaries.

This book discusses the issues involved and so enables you to make your own informed decision.

A stimulating study that places Larkin in his literary and personal context, discusses current controversies and literary criticism but, above all, perceptively explores all his major poems.

This study explores the immense popularity of Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1 and 2, relating both plays to the society that produced them, and as contributions to more permanent political issues.