A History of English Literature Michael Alexander
Language change Other literatures in English Is drama literature? Qualities and quantities
Orientations Britain, England, English
The harvest of literacy Further reading
The fifteenth century Drama Mystery plays
PART THREE Augustan and Romantic SIX Augustan Literature: to seventeen ninety
Robert Burns Further reading SEVEN The Romantics: seventeen ninety to eighteen thirty-seven The Romantic poets
Younger Romantics Lord Byron
Romantic prose Belles lettres
PART FOUR Victorian Literature to eighteen eighty
Nonsense prose and verse Lewis Carroll Edward Lear
Poetry Aestheticism A. E. Housman Rudyard Kipling Further reading
Poetry The Second World War Dylan Thomas
Further reading FOURTEEN New Beginnings: nineteen fifty-five to eighty Drama
Further reading Postscript on the Current Internationalization
Novels Contemporary poetry Further reading Index
Other literatures in English
Orientations Britain, England, English
The coming of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in the fifth, sixth and seventh centuries
Oral origins and conversion
Places of interest in Old and Middle English Literature
Dates of early writings and chief events
Northumbria and The Dream of the Rood
The new writing Handwriting and printing
Spiritual writing Julian of Norwich
The fifteenth century Drama Mystery plays Morality plays Religious lyric Deaths of Arthur
Dialect and language change
New fashions: French and Latin
Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman authors Latin
The fourteenth century Spiritual writing
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Three. Tudor Literature: fifteen hundred to sixteen thousand three
Renaissance and Reformation The Renaissance
Christopher Marlowe Song Thomas Campion Prose John Lyly Thomas Nashe Richard Hooker Further reading
England's place in the world
English Bible Translations
Elizabethan literature Verse
William Shakespeare Shakespeare's life
A Midsummer Night's Dream