CHAPTER I ENGLISH LITERATURE TO THE TIME OF CHAUCER
I Old English Poetry: Beowulf
II Old English Prose: Bede and Alfred
III Chivalry and Romance 8IV Folk Tales and Folk Songs
CHAPTER II CHAUCER AND THE 15TH CENTURY
I Langland, Wycliffe and the Lollards
II Chaucer and His Canterbury Tales
III The Popular Ballad
IV Forms of Early Drama 28
CHAPTER III THE RENAISSANCE
I Humanism in England
II Non-dramatic Poetry
III Tudor Prose
IV Predecessors of Shakespeare
CHAPTER IV WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I Shakespeare and the Renaissance
II Early Tragedies and Comedies
III Historical Plays
IV Great Tragedies
V The Art of Shakespeare
CHAPTER V THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY
I Francis Bacon
II Ben Jonson and John Donne
III Milton and the English Revolution
IV Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes
CHAPTER VI THE LATE 17TH AND THE EARLY 18TH CENTURY
I John Bunyan and John Dryden
II Addison, Steele and Pope
III Daniel Defoe
IV Jonathan Swift
CHAPTER VII THE MID-18TH CENTURY
I Richardson, Smollett and Sterne
II Henry Fielding
III Johnson and His Circle
IV Poetry: From Neo-Classic to Romantic
CHAPTER VIII THE ROMANTIC PERIOD I
I Radicalism and Romanticism
II Wordsworth and Coleridge
III Sir Walter Scott
IV Jane Austen
CHAPTER IX THE ROMANTIC PERIOD II
I George Gordon, Lord Byron
II Percy Bysshe Shelley
III John Keats
CHAPTER X THE VICTORIAN PERIOD I
I “Cruel Thirties and Hungry Forties”
II Charles Dickens
III William Makepeace Thackeray
IV The Bront.s and Mrs. Gaskell
CHAPTER XI THE VICTORIAN PERIOD II
I Tennyson, Browning and Poetic Retreat
II Carlyle, Ruskin and Huxley
III George Eliot and Samuel Butler
IV Morris and Socialist Romance
CHAPTER XII SOME MODERN WRITERS
I Thomas Hardy
II John Galsworthy
III H. G. Wells
IV George Bernard Shaw