Chapter One Early and Medieval English Literature 1
Geoffrey ChaucerChapter Two The English Renaissance 19
William ShakespeareFrancis BaconChapter Three The Seventeenth Century 45
John MiltonJohn BunyanChapter Four The Eighteenth Century 74
Daniel DefoeJonathan SwiftWilliam BlakeChapter Five Romanticism in England 121
William WordsworthGeorge Gordon ByronPercy Bysshe ShelleyJohn KeatsJane AustenChapter Six The Victorian Age 197
Charles DickensWilliam Makepeace ThackerayGeorge EliotThe Bront？ SistersElizabeth Barret BrowningChapter Seven The Twentieth Century 267
Thomas HardyOscar WildeD.H.LawrenceVirginia WoolfJames JoyceJoseph ConradChapter Eight The Postwar British Literature 366