The Critical Legacy
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975
From the Back cover:
The Critical Heritage Series now covers more than ninety authors: each volume is a record of the reception given to a writer and his or her work from the earliest reviews to present-day praise, criticism and indifference, with an emphasis on reviews contemporary to publication and on those by critics who themselves became major writers. This gives us an insight into the development of ciritical attitudes towards the writers, as well as the literary taste and thought of the period, and helps us to understand the writers’ historical situation, their reading public, and their response to these pressures.
The volumes make available much material which it would otherwise be difficult for the student to obtain, and each contains a useful introductory essay which puts the author’s critical reception into a wider context.
JOB’s Comment:
A very interesting idea for a series.
Jan Olof Bengtsson 