PrefaceThe Anglo-Saxon Period 449-1066　Introduction　The Venerable Bede and Caedmon　King Alfred the Great　Beowulf　The Exeter BookThe Medieval Period 1066 -1485 　Introduction　Medieval Romance　Folk Ballads　John Wycliffe and William Langland　Drama in the Middle Ages　Geoffrey ChaucerThe Elizabethan Age 1485-1625　Introduction　Thomas More　Sir Philip Sidney　Edmund Spenser　Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh　Minor Playwrights　William Shakespeare　Francis Bacon　King James BibleThe Seventeenth Century 1625-1700　Introdution　Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets　John Donne and the Metaphysical Poets　John Milton　John Bunyan　John DrydenThe Age of Neo-Classicism 1700-1764　Introduction　Alexander Pope　Jonathan Swift　Richard Steele and Joseph Addison　Samuel Johnson and James Boswell　The Novel of the Eighteenth Century　Daniel Defoe　Samuel Richardson　Henry Fielding　Tobias Smollett　Laurence Sterne　Oliver GoldsmithPre-Romantic Period 1764-1798　Introduction　Horace Walpole 　Ann Radcliffe　Thomas Gray　Robert Burns　William BlakeThe Romantic Age 1798-1837　Introduction　William Wordsworth　Samuel Taylor Coleridge……The Victorian Age 1837-1901The Modernist Age 1901-1945The Postmodern Period 1945-PresentBibliographyIndex