1.
Anglo-Saxon Roots — Pessimism and Comradeship
2.
Chaucer — Social Diversity
3.
Chaucer — a Man of Unusual Cultivation
4.
Spenser — The Faerie Queene
5.
Early Drama — Low Comedy and Religion
6.
Marlowe — Controversy and Danger
7.
Shakespeare the Man — The Road to the Globe
8.
Shakespeare — The Mature Years
9.
Shakespeare's Rivals — Jonson and Webster
10.
The King James Bible — English Most Elegant
11.
The Metaphysicals — Conceptual Daring
12.
Paradise Lost — a New Language for Poetry
13.
Turmoil Makes for Good Literature
14.
The Augustans — Order, Decorum, and Wit
15.
Swift — Anger and Satire
16.
Johnson — Bringing Order to the Language
17.
Defoe — Crusoe and the Rise of Capitalism
18.
Behn — Emancipation in the Restoration
19.
The Golden Age of Fiction
20.
Gibbon — Window Into 18th-Century England
21.
Equiano — The Inhumanity of Slavery
22.
Women Poets — The Minor Voice
23.
Wollstonecraft — "First of a New Genus"
24.
Blake — Mythic Universes and Poetry
25.
Scott and Burns — The Voices of Scotland
26.
Lyrical Ballads — Collaborative Creation
27.
Mad, Bad Byron
28.
Keats — Literary Gold
29.
Frankenstein — a Gothic Masterpiece
30.
Miss Austen and Mrs. Radcliffe
31.
Pride and Prejudice — Moral Fiction
32.
Dickens — Writer With a Mission
33.
The 1840s — Growth of the Realistic Novel
34.
Wuthering Heights — Emily's Masterwork
35.
Jane Eyre and the Other Brontë
36.
Voices of Victorian Poetry
37.
Eliot — Fiction and Moral Reflection
38.
Hardy — Life at Its Worst
39.
The British Bestseller — an Overview
40.
Heart of Darkness — Heart of the Empire?
41.
Wilde — Celebrity Author
42.
Shaw and Pygmalion
43.
Joyce and Yeats — Giants of Irish Literature
44.
Great War, Great Poetry
45.
Bloomsbury and the Bloomsberries
46.
20th-Century English Poetry — Two Traditions
47.
British Fiction From James to Rushdie
48.
New Theatre, New Literary Worlds
