Includes index.

Although ostensibly only a primer meant for beginners, the book offers an excellent practical guideline for the students in understanding and appreciating the real merit of a work. In criticism, forming the correct impression about a work is not enough; one has to justify that impression on the basis of the textual evidence. It is here that the book comes to a student's succour. With innumerable diverse passages and fine analysis professor Hollingworth offers sincere help by demonstrating what to look for, how to look for and where to look for, in a passage for support and authentication of one's impression. A specimen of Richardsian practical criticism the book is sure to be immensely useful to the students of literature interested in literary criticism.