The book has a wide coverage and studies all the famous writers of English
literature in the field of poetry, fiction, essay etc. The writers covered,
among others, include Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Samuel John Milton,
John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, William Wordsworth and Alfred
Tennyson. A special feature of the book is that studies writers and their
contributions not in isolation but in the context of surroundings and various
elements of civilisation of the age of the writer. Thus it suggests a vital
relationship between English literature and English life. The book is written in
a simple and lucid style. It will be found of