Preface Part One The Anglo-Saxon PeriodChapter 1 The Early Invasions of the British IslesChapter 2 Anglo-Saxon Literature2.1 Poetry2.2 Prose Part Two The Medieval AgeChapter 3 Anglo-Norman Literature3.1 Norman Conquest3.2 LiteratureChapter 4 Literature in the Age of Chaucer4.1 William Langland4.2 Geoffrey ChaucerChapter 5 Literature in the 15th Century5.1 Popular Ballads5.2 Sir Thomas Malory Part Three The Renaissance PeriodChapter 6 English Renaissance6.1 Background6.2 RenaissanceChapter 7 Poetry in the Renaissance Period7.1 Sir Thomas Wyatt7.2 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey7.3 Sir Philip Sidney7.4 Edmund SpenserChapter 8 Prose in the Renaissance Period8.1 Sir Thomas More8.2 John Lyly8.3 Thomas Nashe8.4 Francis BaconChapter 9 Drama in the Renaissance Period9.1 English Drama9.2 Thomas Kyd9.3 Christopher Marlowe9.4 William Shakespeare9.5 Ben Jonson Part Four The Period of Revolution and RestorationChapter 10 Historical ContextChapter 11 Literature in the Period of Revolution11.1 Literary Characteristics11.2 Metaphysical Poets11.3 Cavalier Poets11.4 John MiltonChapter 12 Literature in the Period of Restoration12.1 Literary Characteristics12.2 John Bunyan12.3 John Dryden12.4 The Restoration Theater Part Five The Age of EnlightenmentChapter 13 Introduction13.1 Background13.2 Enlightenment13.3 LiteratureChapter 14 Neoclassical School14.1 Alexander Pope14.2 Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele14.3 Samuel Johnson14.4 James BoswellChapter 15 Fiction of Realistic Tradition15.1 Daniel Defoe15.2 lonathan Swift15.3 Henry Fielding15.4 Tobias George SmollettChapter 16 Sentimentalist Novels16.1 Samuel Richardson16.2 Laurence Sterne16.3 Oliver GoldsmithChapter 17 Poetry of Pre-Romantieism and Sentimentalism17.1 Fre-Romantieism17.2 Sentimentalism17.3 Representative PoetsChapter 18 Drama in the 18th Century Part Six The Romantic PeriodChapter 19 English Romanticism19.1 Background19.2 Romanticism19.3 LiteratureChapter 20 Romantic Poetry20.1 Representative Poets of the First Generation20.2 Representative Poets of the Second GenerationChapter 21 Fiction in the Romantic Age21.1 Sir Walter Scott21.2 Jane AustenChapter 22 Essays in the Romantic Age22.1 Charles Lamb22.2 William Hazlitt22.3 James Henry Leigh Hunt22.4 Thomas Penson De Quincey Part Seven The Period of RealismChapter 23 Critical Realism23.1 Background23.2 Realism23.3 Literary CurrentsChapter 24 CritieaI Realist Novels24.1 Charles Dickens24.2 William Makepeaee Thackeray24.3 George Eliot24.4 The Bronte Sisters24.5 Elizabeth Gaskell24.6 George Meredith24.7 Samuel Butler24.8 Thomas HardyChapter 25 Victorian Poetry25.1 Alfred, Lord Tennyson25.2 The Brownings25.3 Matthew ArnoldChapter 26 Victorian Essays26.1 Thomas Carlyle26.2 John Stuart Mill26.3 John RuskinChapter 27 Literary Trends at the End of the 19th Century27.1 Naturalistic Trend27.2 New Romanticism27.3 Aestheticism and Decadence Part Eight The Early Twentieth CenturyChapter 28 Introduction28.1 Background28.2 LiteratureChapter 29 Drama in the Early 20th CenturyChapter 30 The Edwardians30.1 Arnold Bennett30.2 Rudyard Kipling30.3 John Galsworthy30.4 H. G. Wells30.5 Joseph Conrad30.6 E. M. Forster30.7 Katherine MansfieldChapter 31 The Georgians and the War Poets31.1 W. H. Davies31.2 Walter de la Mare31.3 Philip Edward Thomas31.4 John Drinkwater31.5 Rupert Brooke31.6 Wilfred Owen31.7 David Jones31.8 Robert yon Ranke Graves31.9 Edmund BlundenChapter 32 The 1920s' Literature32.1 Novel32.2 PoetryChapter 33 The 1930s' Literature33.1 Poetry33.2 Fiction Part Nine The Postwar PeriodChapter 34 Postwar Poetry34.1 The Movement Poetry34.2 Poetry since the 1960s and 1970s34.3 Younger Poets of tile Later PeriodChapter 35 Postwar Fiction35. I "Angry Young Men" -35.2 Other Writers on the Postwar Literary SceneChapter 36 Postwar Drama36.1 Samuel Barclay Beckett36.2 Harold Pinter36.3 Sir Tom Stoppard36.4 John James Osborne36.5 Sir Arnold Wesker Glossary Key to Exercises Appendix �� List of Nobel Laureates in Literature Appendix �� List of Poets Laureate of the UK Appendix �� List of Recipients of the Golden PEN Award in English Literature Appendix �� List of Winners of the Booker Prize for Fiction Appendix �� Periods in British History References