Publisher's Synopsis
Introduction and Commentary by Robert Langbaum. Essays on History by G M Young, G Kitson Clark, Friedrich Engels, Noel Annan, Raymond Williams; on Society by John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin; and on Literature by George H Ford, Dorothy Van Ghent, T S Eliot, Robert Langbaum, John Holloway, Irving Howe, Jerome H Buckley, W B Yeats.