Guide to Modern World Literature
- Guide to Modern World Literature
The Guide to Modern World Literature was Martin Seymour-Smith's attempt to describe all important 20th-century authors (as of 1985), in all languages, in an encyclopedic manner. It was first published in 1973 with a completely revised and updated version in 1985.
The book is over 1000 pages long. It has been found eccentric and occasionally frustrating but always readable and highly stimulating. Seymour-Smith used the book to champion writers he regarded as underrated, such as James Hanley, Laura Riding, Pio Baroja and Jose Maria Arguedas, while attacking those he felt were overvalued, such as George Bernard Shaw, W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot.
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