CHAPTER 1 Old English literature 7 // CHAPTER 2 Middle English literature 15 // CHAPTER 3 Elizabethen poetry and prose 23 // CHAPTER 4 Elizabethan drama 35 // CHAPTER 5 John Milton and his time 53 // CHAPTER 6 Restoration drama and prose 63 // CHAFFER 7 English poets, 1660-1798 71 // CHAFFER 8 Eighteenth-century prose 81 // CHAPTER 9 Early nineteenth-century poets 91 // CHAPTER 10 Later nineteenth-century poets IOI // CHAPTER I I Nineteenth-century novelists "5 // CHAPTER 12 Other nineteenth-century prose 135 // CHAPTER 13 Twentieth-century novels and other prose // CHAPTER 14 Twentieth-century drama 165 // CHAPTER 15 Twentieth-century poetry 181 // Glossary of literary terms 198 // Table of historical events 207 // Index 213