v. A. The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485) / Alfred David, James Simpson -- v. B. The sixteenth century (1485-1603); the early seventeenth century (1603-1660) / George M. Logan [and others] -- v. C. The Restoration and the eighteenth century (1660-1785) / Lawrence Lipking, James Noggle -- v. D. The Romantic period (1785-1830) / Jack Stillinger -- v. E. The Victorian age (1830-1901) -- v. F. The twentieth century and after.
VOLUME A CONTENTS : -- The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485) : -- Anglo-Saxon literature. The dream of the rood ; Beowulf. -- Anglo-Norman literature. Marie De France. -- Middle English literature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Sir Gawain and the green knight ; Geoffrey Chaucer ; William Langland ; Julian of Norwich ; Margery Kempe ; The York play of the crucifixion ; Sir Thomas Malory.
VOLUME B CONTENTS : -- The sixteenth century (1485-1603) : -- John Skelton -- Sir Thomas More -- Sir Thomas Wyatt the elder -- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey -- The English BIble -- William Tyndale -- Thomas More -- John Calvin -- Anne Askew -- John Foxe -- Book of Common Prayer -- Book of Homilies -- Richard Hooker -- Robert Southwell -- Roger Ascham -- Sir Thomas Hoby -- Mary I (Mary Tudor) -- Lady Jane Grey -- Mary, Queen of Scots -- Elizabeth I -- Arthur Golding -- Edmund Spenser -- Edmund Spenser -- Sir Walter Ralegh -- Frobisher's voyages to the Arctic -- Drake's circumnavigation of the globe -- Amadas and Barlowe's voyage to Virginia -- Hariot's report on Virginia -- John Lyly -- Sir Philip Sidney -- Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke -- Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke -- Samuel Daniel -- Michael Drayton -- Christopher Marlowe -- William Shakespeare -- Thomas Campion -- Thomas Nashe -- Richard Barnfield ; -- The early seventeenth century (1603-1660) : -- John Donne -- Izaak Walton -- Amelia Lanyer -- Ben Jonson -- Mary Wroth -- John Webster -- Elizabeth Cary -- Joseph Swetnam -- Rachel Speght -- Sir Frances Bacon -- Robert Burton -- Sir Thomas Browne -- Thomas Hobbes -- George Herbert -- Henry Vaughan -- Richard Crashaw -- Robert Herrick -- Thomas Carew -- Sir John Suckling -- Richard Lovelace --Edmund Waller -- Abraham Cowley -- Katherine Philips -- Andrew Marvell -- Robert Filmer -- John Milton -- Gerrard Winstanley -- Lucy Hutchinson -- Edward Hyde, Earl of Claredon -- Lady Anne Halkett -- Dorothy Waugh -- Thomas Traherne -- Margaret Cavendish -- John Milton -- Poems in process.
VOLUME C CONTENTS : -- The Restoration and the eighteenth century (1660-1785) : -- John Dryden -- Samuel Pepys -- John Bunyan -- John Locke -- Sir Isaac Newton -- Samuel Butler -- John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester -- Aphra Behn -- William Congreve -- Mary Astell -- Daniel Defoe -- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea -- Matthew Prior -- Jonathan Swift -- Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele -- Alexander Pope -- Eliza Haywood -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu --Anne Ingram, Viscountess Irwin -- Mary Leapor -- John Gay -- William Hogarth -- Samuel Johnson -- James Boswell -- Frances Burney -- Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury -- James Thomson -- David Hume -- Edmund Burke -- Olaudah Equiano -- Thomas Gray -- William Collins -- Christopher Smart -- Oliver Goldsmith -- George Crabbe -- William Cowper -- Popular Ballads -- Poems in process.
VOLUME D CONTENTS : -- The Romantic period (1785-1830) : -- Anna Letitia Barbauld ; Charlotte Smith ; William Blake ; Robert Burns ; Mary Wollstonecraft ; William Wordsworth ; Dorothy Wordsworth ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; George Gordon, Lord Byron ; Percy Bysshe Shelley ; Felicia Dorothea Hemans ; John Keats.
VOLUME E CONTENTS : -- The Victorian Age (1830-1901) : -- Thomas Carlyle ; Elizabeth Barrett Browning ; Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; Elizabeth Gaskell ; Robert Browning ; Matthew Arnold ; Christina Rossetti ; Gerard Manley Hopkins ; Robert Louis Stevenson ; Oscar Wilde ; Rudyard Kipling.
VOLUME F CONTENTS : -- The twentieth century and after : -- Thomas Hardy ; Joseph Conrad ; William Butler Yeats ; Virginia Woolf ; James Joyce ; D.H. Lawrence ; T.S. Eliot ; Katherine Mansfield ; Jean Rhys ; Samuel Beckett ; W.H. Auden ; Dylan Thomas ; Philip Larkin ; Nadine Gordimer ; Brian Friel ; Derek Walcott ; Alice Munro ; Seamus Heaney ; J.M. Coetzee ; Salman Rushdie ; Anne Carson ; Poems in process. -- Appendixes: Literary terminology ; Geographic nomenclature ; British money ; The British Baronage ; The royal lines of England and Great Britain ; Religions in England ; Map: London from Chaucer to Johnson ; Map: London in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ; Map: The British Empire, ca. 1913 ; Illustration: The universe according to Ptolemy ; Illustration: A London playhouse of Shakespeare's time.
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