Chapter 1 The Old English(Anglo-Saxon)Period·Beowulf&The Middle English Period 1
Chapter 2 Chaucer·The Pre-Elizabethan Period&More 14
Chapter 3 The Elizabethan Age·Spenser·Sidney&Marlowe 35
Chapter 4 Shakespeare·Bacon·Jonson&King James'Bible 51
Chapter 5 The 17th Century·Donne·Milton·Dryden·Bunyan&The Restoration Theater 72
Chapter 6 The Classic Age·Pope·Johnson·Gray·Goldsmith&Sheridan 97
Chapter 7 Movement toward Romanticism·Thomson·Young·Cowper·Crabbe·Blake&Burns 123
Chapter 8 18th-Century Fiction·Swift·Defoe·Richardson·Fielding·Sterne&Smollett 137
Chapter 9 The Romantic Period·Wordsworth·Coleridge·Scott&Austen 164
Chapter 10 Byron·Shelley&Keats 196
Chapter 11 The Victorian Period·Victorian Prose·Carlyle·Mill&Newman 216
Chapter 12 Victorian Fiction·Dickens&Thackeray 228
Chapter 13 Charlotte and Emily Bronte&Meredith 249
Chapter 14 George Eliot·Trollope&Butler 262
Chapter 15 Hardy·Gissing·Moore·Wilde&Stevenson 285
Chapter 16 Victorian Poetry·Tennyson·Browning&Arnold 308
Chapter 17 Clough·Hopkins·Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat&The Aesthetic Movement 330
Chapter 18 Victorian Drama·Shaw&Wilde 343
Chapter 19 The Early 20th Century·The Edwardians·The Georgians&The War Poets 354
Chapter 20 The 1920s·Woolf&Joyce 376
Chapter 21 Lawrence·Yeats·Imagism&T.S.Eliot 406
Chapter 22 Poetry of the 1930s·Auden·The Audenic Group·Thomas&Empson 433
Chapter 23 Fiction of the 1930s·Huxley·Orwell·Waugh·Greene&Isherwood 452
Chapter 24 Postwar Poetry 466
Chapter 25 Postwar Fiction 493
Chapter 26 Postwar Drama 516
Notes and References 531
Index 556