Our top-selling Study Guide is intended both for first-time readers of The Sound and the Fury and—since it offers new scholarship and critical argument on Faulkner—for established critics and scholars.

A brilliant new study guide to perhaps the finest English poet of the 20th Century, by a distinguished critic and scholar.

The book offers a detailed commentary on the poetry of Philip Larkin, exploring the political and cultural contexts which have shaped his contemporary reputation.

‘Prufrock’ is as fresh today as when it was first written, and, for better or worse, The Waste Land remains the celebrated poem of its age, … a text that may be venerated, despised, rejected or enjoyed, but not ignored.