Poetry Port One Early and Medieval Period　 Chapter 1 Anglo-Saxon Poetry　 Chapter 2 Anglo-Norman Poetry　 Chapter 3 Poetry in the Age of Chaucer　 Chapter 4 The Fifteenth Century Poetry Part Two The Sixteenth Century　 Chapter 1 The Renaissance in England　 Chapter 2 Sir Thomas Wyatt　 Chapter 3 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey　 Chapter 4 Sir Philip Sidney　 Chapter 5 Edmund Spenser　 Chapter 6 Sir Walter Ralegh　 Chapter 7 Christopher Marlowe　 Chapter 8 William Shakespeare　 Chapter 9 Ben Jonson Part Three The Seventeenth Century　 Chapter 1 Revolution and Restoration　 Chapter 2 Metaphysical Poets　 Chapter 3 Cavalier Poets　 Chapter 4 John Milton Part Four The Eighteenth Century　 Chapter 1 General View of the 18th-century English Poetry　 Chapter 2 Alexander Pope　 Chapter 3 Thomas Gray　 Chapter 4 William Collins　 Chapter 5 Oliver Goldsmith　 Chapter 6 William Blake　 Chapter 7 Robert Burns Part Five The Romantic Period　 Chapter 1 The English Romantic Movement　 Chapter 2 William Wordsworth　 Chapter 3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge　 Chapter 4 George Gordon Byron　 Chapter 5 Percy Bysshe Shelley　 Chapter 6 John Keats Part Six The Victorian Age　 Chapter 1 General View of the English Poetry　 Chapter 2 Elizabeth Barrett Browning　 Chapter 3 Alfred Tennyson　 Chapter 4 Robert Browning　 Chapter 5 Matthew Arnold　 Chapter 6 Dante Gabriel Rossetti Part seven The Twentieth Century　 Chapter 1 General View of the English Poetry　 Chapter 2 Thomas Hardy　 Chapter 3 Gerard Manley Hopkins　 Chapter 4 A. E. Housman　 Chapter 5 William Butler Yeats　 Chapter 6 Thomas Stearns Eliot　 Chapter 7 Rupert Brooke　 Chapter 8 Robert Graves　 Chapter 9 Wystan Hugh Auden　 Chapter 10 Philip Larkin　 Chapter 11 Dylan Thomas　 Chapter 12 Ted Hughes　 Chapter 13 Seamus HeaneyNovel Part Eight Evolution of the English Novel　 Chapter 1 The Rise of the English Novel　 Chapter 2 Aphra Behn Part Nine The Eighteenth Century English Novel　 Chapter 1 The Rapid Growth of the English Novel　 Chapter 2 Daniel Defoe　 Chapter 3 Jonathan Swift　 Chapter 4 Samuel Richardson　 Chapter 5 Henry Fielding　 Chapter 6 Oliver Goldsmith Part Ten The Nineteenth Century　 Chapter 1 The Prosperous Period in Novel Writing　 Chapter 2 Jane Austen　 Chapter 3 Walter Scott　 Chapter 4 Charles Dickens　 Chapter 5 William Makepeace Thackeray　 Chapter 6 Charlotte Bronte　 Chapter 7 Emily Bronte　 Chapter 8 George Eliot　 Chapter 9 Thomas Hardy Part Eleven The Twentieth Century　 Chapter 1 The Development of the English Novel　 Chapter 2 John Galsworthy　 Chapter 3 Joseph Conrad　 Chapter 4 E. M. Forster　 Chapter 5 Virginia Woolf　 Chapter 6 James Joyce　 Chapter 7 D. H. Lawrence　 Chapter 8 George or WellDrama Part Twelve Molar English Dramatists and Selected Plays　 Chapter 1 General view of the English Drama　 Chapter 2 Major English Dramatists　 Chapter 3 Selected Plays William ShakespeareEssay Part Thirteen Major Essayists and Selected Essays　 Chapter 1 General view of the English Essay　 Chapter 2 Major Essayists　 Chapter 3 Selected Essays