Foreword
Chapter 1 The Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period·Beowulf· The Middle English Period
Chapter 2 Chaucer·The Pre-Elizabethan Period·More
Chapter 3 The Elizabethan Age·Spenser·Sidney·Marlowe
Chapter 4 Shakespeare·Bacon·Jonson·King James'Bible
Chapter 5 The 17th Century·Donne·Milton·Dryden·Bunyan · The Restoration Theater
Chapter 6 The Classic Age·Pope·Johnson·Gray·Goldsmith · Sheridan
Chapter 7 Movement toward Romanticism - Thomson·Young · Cowper·Crabbe·Blake·Bums
Chapter 8 18th-Century Fiction·Swift·Defoe·Richardson · Fielding·Sterne·Smollett
Chapter 9 The Romantic Period - Wordsworth·Coleridge·Scott·Austen
Chapter 10 Byron·Shelley·Keats
Chapter 11 The Victorian Period·Victorian Prose·Carlyle·Mill·Newman
Chapter 12 Victorian Fiction·Dickens·Thackeray
Chapter 13 Charlotte and Emily Bronte·Meredith
Chapter 14 George Eliot·Trollope·Butler
Chapter 15 Hardy·Gissing·Moore·Wilde·Stevenson
Chapter 16 Victorian Poetry·Tennyson·Browning·Arnold
Chapter 17 Clough·Hopkins·Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat · The Aesthetic Movement
Chapter 18 Victorian Drama·Shaw·Wilde
Chapter 19 The Early 20th Century o The Edwardians·The Georgians · The War Poets
Chapter 20 The 1920s·Woolf·Joyce
Chapter 21 Lawrence·Yeats·Imagism·T. S. Eliot
Chapter 22 Poetry of the 1930s·Auden·The Audenic Group·Thomas · Empson
Chapter 23 Fiction of the 1930s·Huxley·Orwell·Waugh·Greene · Isherwood
Chapter 24 Postwar Poetry
Chapter 25 Postwar Fiction
Chapter 26 Postwar Drama
Notes and References
Index