Chapter 1 The Anglo-Saxon Period Beowulf Chapter 2 The Middle Ages Geoffrey Chaucer Chapter 3 The English Renaissance Thomas More Sir Thomas Wyatt Henry Howard Sir Edmund Spenser Sir Philip Sidney Sir Francis Bacon Christopher Marlowe Sir Walter Raleigh William Shakespeare Chapter 4 Inspirations Thomas Campion John Donne Ben Jonson Robert Herrick Sir John Suckling Richard Lovelace George Herbert Andrew Marvell John Milton Henry Vaughan John Bunyan Chapter 5 Criticism and Satire John Dryden Aphra Behn Jonathan Swift Alexander Pope Joseph Addison Chapter 6 Life Goes On Daniel Defoe Thomas Gray Samuel Johnson James Boswell Chapter 7 The Natural and the Fantastic Sir Walter Scott Samuel Richardson William Blake Robert Burns Mary Wollstonecraft William Wordsworth Dorothy Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert Southey Mary Shelley Walter de La Mare Chapter 8 Truth and Beauty George Gordon Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley John Keats Chapter 9 Emotional Responses Alfred Lord Tennyson Charles Lamb Jane Austen William Hazlitt Charles Dickens Charlotte Bronte Emily Bronte William Makepeace Thackeray Elizabeth Barrett Browning Robert Browning Matthew Arnold Lewis Carroll Christina Georgina Rossetti Dante Gabriel Rossetti George Meredith John Masefield George Eliot William Wilkie Collins Chapter 10 Lasting Impressions Charles Darwin Thomas Hardy Robert Louis Stevenson Gerard Manley HopkinsE. Housman H. HudsonEdward Morgan ForsterK. ChestertonChapter 11 Illusion and Disillusion George Bernard Shaw Rupert Brooke Wilfred Owen Siegfried Sassoon Joseph Conrad William Butler Yeats Saki (Hector Hugh Monroe)H. LawrenceJames JoyceS. EliotVirginia Woolf Stevie Smith Katherine Mansfield Bessie Head Winston Churchill Agatha ChristieW. JacobsIsrael Zangwill Chapter 12 Modern Perspectives John Boynton Priestley Bertrand Russell Dorothy Sayers Stephen Spender Henry Reed Dylan Thomas George Orwell Ted Hughes