Modern Essays

by Frank Kermode

A collection of some of the author's best short pieces in which he considers poets and dancers, obscenity and modernity and such diverse figures as J.D. Salinger and Muriel Spark, D.H. Lawrence and Samuel Beckett.

Genres: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism

Paperback

First published April 1, 1971

About the author

Sir John Frank Kermode was a highly regarded British literary critic best known for his seminal critical work The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction, published in 1967 (revised 2003).