An Introduction to the Study of Literature sets forth, in a simple and lucid
manner, the issues and questions to be kept in mind while studying the vast
canon of English literature. It takes much of its substance from a series of
twenty-five lectures delivered before University Extension audiences at the
Municipal Technical Institute, West Ham, and the Polytechnic, Woolwich. This
book compresses the matter from these lectures, along with a good deal of
additional information, to provide a compact and handy guide that should prove
extremely useful to new students of literature as well as veterans in the
subject. Comprising ways and methods to study various