"This highly useful series presents substantial excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures and nonfiction writers, including novelists, poets, playwrights and literary theorists, of 1900 to 1999."

"Each volume presents overviews of four to eight authors with chronologically arranged criticism representing the entire range of response to each author."

Please note: Alden Library no longer receives printed volumes in this series: for recent essays, see Literature Criticism Online.