General Editor’s Preface List of Figures and Tables A Note On References Introduction:Modern Beginnings Part I Elements 1. The Modern Literary Market 2. Modern Authorship 3. Modern English Usage Part II Forms 4. Modern. Poetry Verse Technique Hardy and Yeats Masefield,Brooke,7homas,and‘Georgian’Poetry Imagism and After:Pound,Eliot,Sitwell,and Lawrence w. H. Auden and the Poetry of the Thirties Trends,Anthologies,and Reputations 5. Modern Drama From Problem Play to Discussion Play Comedy of Manners:Maugham and Coward Historical and Verse Drama 6. Modern Short Stories 7. The Modern Novel:Principles and Methods 8. The Modern Novel as Social Chronicle Provincial Chronicles and Sagas Condition of England,Industrial,and Civic Novels 9. The Modern Psychological Novel Realism and the Education Novel High Modernism,Memory,and Consciousness 10. Modern Romance,F(xiàn)able,and Historical Fiction Romances of 7ruancy Historical Novels Fabulous Romances Visionary Romances 11. Modern Satire Verse Satire:Hardy,Eliot,and Sassoon Prose Satire:Huxley,Waugh,and Others 12. Modern Essays,Biographies,Memoirs, and 7ravel Books 13. Modern Entertainment:Forms of Light Reading Detective Fiction The 7hriller Romantic Love Stories Comical Prose Fiction Part III 0ccasions 14. England and the English Names for England England Epitomized England Explored The English Character The English Abroad Retrospect:Three Decaldes of Modern Realism Author Bibliographies Suggestions for Further Reading Index