Chapter One Early and Medieval English Literature 1
Chapter Two The Renaissance 9
William Shakespeare
Francis Bacon
Chapter Three The Period of English Bourgeois Revolution and Restoration 29
John Milton
John Bunyan
Chapter Four Eighteenth Century English Literature 47
Daniel Defoe
Jonathan Swift
Henry Fielding
William Blake
Robert Burns
Chapter Five Romanticism in England 89
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
George Gordon Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
jane Austen
Chapter Six The Victorian Age 143
Charles Dickens
William Makepeace Thackeray
George Eliot
The Bronte Sisters
The Brownings
Chapter Seven Twentieth Century English Literature 195
Thomas Hardy
John Galsworthy
Oscar Wilde
George Bernard Shaw
D.H.Lawrence
Virginia Woolf
James Joyce
Bibliography