Part I: Restoration of Monarchy and The Age of Dryden
Chapter 1: The Spirit of Restoration and the Rise of Neo-Classicism
Chapter 2: Satire: Its Origin and Development
Chapter 3: Minor Poets of the Restoration Period
Chapter 4: Minor Poets of the Restoration Period
Chapter 5: Restoration Drama: Heroic Plays and Tragedies
Chapter 6: Restoration Comedy
Chapter 7: Restoration Prose
Chapter 8: Restoration Literary Criticism

Part II.: The Age of Pope and Swift
Chapter 9: The Augustan Literary and Political Temper
Chapter 10: Jonathan Swift, the Tory Satirist
Chapter 11: Alexander Pope, the Tory Satirist
Chapter 12: Periodical Essays: Addison and Steele
Part III: The Age of Johnson
Chapter 13: Samuel Johnson's Prose and Poetry
Chapter 14: Drama to 1800
Chapter 15: Novel Its Rise, Definition, Aspects, Types, and Schools
Chapter 16: Eighteenth-Century Novel
Chapter 17: Eighteenth-Century Literary Criticism
Chapter 18: The Movement Away From Neo-Classicism and the Age of Sensibility

Part IV: The Romantic Period
Chapter 19: Romanticism: Definition, Points of View, and Poetic Theory
Chapter 20: William Blake
Chapter 21: William Wordsworth
Chapter 22: Samuel Taylor Colridge
Chapter 23: George Gordon, Lord Byron
Chapter 24: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Chapter 25: John Keats
Chapter 26: The Tssayists and Other Prose Writers in the Romantic Period
Chapter 27: English Novel in the Romantic Period
Chapter 28: Literary Chiticism in the Romantic Period
Chapter 29: Social, Religious, and Poetic Background to the Victorian Age

Part V: The Victorian Age
Chapter 30: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Chapter 31: Robert Browning and Dramatic Monologue
Chapter 32: Matthew Arnold
Chapter 33: Victorian Prose
Chapter 34: Victorian Novel

Part VI: The Twentieth Century
Chapter 35: Background to the Twentieth-Century Literature
Chapter 36: The Poetry of Thomas Hardy
Chapter 37: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Chapter 38: William Butler Yeats
Chapter 39: Thomas Stearns Eliot
Chapter 40: Literary Criticism Since Matthew Arnold
Chapter 41: Twentieth-Century English Novel
Chapter 42: Modern English Drama

Selected Bibliography
Index