Foreword Chapter 1 The Old English （Anglo-Saxon）Period·Beowulf·The Middle English Period Beowulf·The Middle English PeriodChapter 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·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·EmpsonChapter 23 Fiction of the 1930s·Huxley·OrweU·Waugh·Greene·Isherwood Chapter 24 Postwar Poetry Chapter 25 Postwar Fiction Chapter 26 Postwar Drama Notes and References Index