Each volume includes:
-- An introduction providing the reader with a lucid overview of criticism from its beginnings -- illuminating controversies, evaluating approaches and sorting out the schools of thought
-- The most influential reviews and the best reprinted scholarly essays
-- A section devoted exclusively to reviews and reactions by the subject's contemporaries
-- Original essays, new translations and revisions commissioned especially for the series
-- Previously unpublished materials such as interviews, lost letters and manuscript fragments
-- A bibliography of the subject's writings and interviews
-- A name and subject index
