Introduction
Old English Poetry
Middle English Poetry
Chaucer
Poetry in Scots: Barbour to Burns
From Ballads to Betjeman
Printing and Distribution of Poetry
Varieties of Sixteenth-Century Narrative Poetry
Sixteenth-Century Lyric Poetry
Spenser, Sidney, Jonson
Lyric Poetry from Donne to Philips
Miltion
Dryden and Pope
Poetry in the Eighteenth Century
Blake
Coleridge
Poetry, 1785-1832
Byron, Shelley, and Keats
Wordsworthe and Tennyson
The Victorian Era
Victorian Religious Poetry
Pre-Raphaelite Poetry
The 1890s
1898-1945: Hardy to Auden
Yeats, Lawrence, Eliot
Poetry in England, 1945-1990
Poetry in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, 1930-1990
Brief Biographies of the Poets
Editions
Notes on Contributors
Index