Chapter One Love 1
William Shakespeare 2
Robert Burns 4
Oscar Wilde 6
William Butler Yeats 13
David Herbert Lawrence 15
Chapter Two Divinity and Secularity 28
John Milton 29
John Donne 31
William Blake 36
Bible 39
Chapter Three Experience and Growth 45
Daniel Defoe 47
Charles Dickens 57
James Joyce 71
Chapter Four Human Race and Natural World 77
William Wordsworth 79
Percy Bysshe Shelley 82
John Keats 87
Robert Louis Stevenson 91
Raymond Williams 96
Chapter Five Faith and Skepticism 104
William Shakespeare 106
William Makepeace Thackeray 108
Matthew Arnold 119
Thomas Hardy 122
Chapter Six Female Individuality and Fulfillment 127
Geoffrey Chaucer 128
Jane Austen 132
Charlotte Bront？ 142
Virginia Woolf 153
Chapter Seven Mythology and Reality 159
Alfred Tennyson 160
George Bernard Shaw 164
Wystan Hugh Auden 175
Chapter Eight Civilization and Alienation 179
Joseph Conrad 180
William Golding 187
Thomas Stearns Eliot 195
Harold Pinter 200
Chapter Nine Cultural Diversity 207
Edward Morgan Forster 209
Doris May Lessing 222
Kazuo Ishiguro 237
Chapter Ten Utopia and Dystopia 258
Thomas More 260
Jonathan Swift 268
Herbert George Wells 281
George Orwell 294