This is what the Editor's foreword says about the book: 'The Companion is essentially a collaborative work, a series of mini-biographies and essays combining the imaginative insights and scholarship of a dedicated group of co-authors.' Well, that says it all, really. It's hard to know quite how to review a book like this. I can say that in reading this, ... Read moreyou will almost certainly find what you seek, and waste an hour or more looking at fascinating irrelevancies. The entries are exhaustive, and well presented. A valuable reference, certainly, for those who enjoy twentieth century literature, and certainly significant historically, if only to help future ages identify just what the late twentieth century thought important in the literary world.
Sean A. Finnegan, Contemporary Review, No. 1573 (Vol. 270), February 1997
The entries are exhaustive, and well presented. A valuable reference ... or those who enjoy twentieth century literature, and cetainly significant historically, if only to help future ages identify just what the late twentieth century thought important in the literary world.
Sean A. Finnegan, Contemporary Review
a unique reference book on English-language writers and writing throughout the present century ... it is the most comprehensive single-volume guide to modern (and postmodern) literature yet to be published
Books Magazine
a display of riches ... The miracle is, since this volume extends its explorations across the seven seas and both sides of the Atlantic, what a treasure house has been assembled and displayed with such glittering clarity.
Michael Foot, Evening Standard
vigorously comprehensive work
Ian Hamilton, The Sunday Telegraph
There is plenty of information to be discovered here, conveniently and relatively cheaply assembled.
Times Literary Supplement
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