This book is a source of text cum reference meant for Indian students and academicians. It discusses with extensive criticism from Elizabethan Age to Modern Literature.

This book embodying a series of appreciations of the great English writers should helpful in the college teaching of literature. The contents have been selected and arranged to present a chronological and almost continuous account of English literature from its beginning in the age of Elizabeth down to modern literature. Original quotations and critical commentaries are given to maintain the gravity of text. All major works of leading writers are aptly discussed with extensive criticism. Shakespearean characterization to Romanticism is characteristically dealt with.