An Introduction to the Study ofiterature sets forth, in a simple anducid manner, the issues and questions to be kept in mind while studying the vast canon of Englishiterature. It takes much of its substance from a series of twenty - fiveectures delivered before University Extension audiences at the Municipal Technical Institute, West Ham and the Polytechnic, Woolwich. This book compresses the matter from theseectures, along with a good deal of additional information, to provide a compact and handy guide that should prove extremely useful to new students ofiterature as well as veterans in the subject. Comprising ways and methods to study various genres such as poetry, prose fiction, drama, essay and short story, it covers every facet ofiterature. It also analyses the task of critiquingiterature to bring out the necessity of studying the subject. A must - read for alliterature aficionados.