About the Author

The editor, J.M. Cohen was an English critic and translator, author of a study of Robert Browning, of The History of Western Literature (Penguin Books), of Poetry of this Age, 1900-1958 (Hutchinson), and of various Penguin translations (Don Quixote, Rabelais, Montaigne, etc.), and specialised in the literature of the 17th and 19th centuries in the chief European languages. He contributed critical articles to various literary periodicals, but principally to the Times Literary Supplement.