This volume includes Shaw's St. Joan , twenty poems by Hardy, thirty by Yeats, Conrad's Heart of Darkness , and Lawrence's The Prussian Officer , the complete St. Mawr , Pornography and Obscenity , and eleven poems. It also features Joyce's The Dead , excerpts from The Portrait of the Artist , Ulysses , and Finnegan's Wake , and works by T. S. Eliot, including The Waste Land and Little Gidding .
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).