Ⅰ．The Background of the Age 1
Ⅱ．Popular Literature and Translations 39
Ⅲ．The Successors of Spenser：Song-books and Miscellanies 76
Ⅳ．Jonson，Donne，and their Successors 107
Ⅴ．The Literature of Travel 180
Ⅵ．Essays and Characters 192
Ⅶ．History and Biography 220
Ⅷ．Political Thought 246
Ⅸ．Science and Scientific Thought 272
Ⅹ．Religion and Religious Thought 310
Ⅺ．Heroic Verse 368
Ⅻ．Milton 377
Conclusion 421
Chronological Tables 425
Bibliography 461
Index 669