John Galsworthy
The Man of Property (excerpt from Part II, Chapter 10)
George Bernard Shaw
Mrs. Warren's Profession (excerpts from Acts II & III)
William Butler Yeats
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Robert Tressell
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (excerpt from Chapter 2)
Robert Bridges
London Snow
John Masefield
Sea-Fever
Walter de la Mare
The Listeners
Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Portrait of a Lady
The Hippopotamus
David Herbert Lawrence
Sons and Lovers (excerpts from Chapter X)
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway (an excerpt)
James Joyce
Ulysses (excerpt from Chapter 2)
Lewis Jones
Cwmardy
Chapter V The Explosion
Chapter XII Soldiers Are Sent to the Valley
Ralph Fox
The Novel and the People
Chapter 5 The Novel as Epic
Chapter 6 The Victorian Retreat
Chapter 7 The Prometheans
Chapter 9 Socialist Realism
Wysten Hugh Auden
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
Christopher Caudwell
Illusion and Reality: A Study of the Sources of Poetry
Chapter IV English Poets
Sean O'Casey
Drums under the Windows
Prometheus Hibernica
Appendix I Biographical Sketches
Appendix II A List of Books from Which the Texts in This Anthology Are Taken