Chapter 1. Old English Literature
Chapter 2. Middle English Literature
Chapter 3. Elizabethen Poetry and Prose
Chapter 4. Elizabethen Drama
Chapter 5. John Milton and His Time
Chapter 6. Restoration Drama and Prose
Chapter 7. English Poets, 1660 - 1798
Chapter 8. Eighteenth-Century Prose
Chapter 9. Early Nineteenth-Century Poets
Chapter 10. Later Nineteenth-Century Poets
Chapter 11. Nineteenth-Century Novelists
Chapter 12. Other Nineteenth-Century Novelists
Chapter 13. Twentieth-Century Novels and Other Prose
Chapter 14. Twentieth-Century Drama
Chapter 15. Twentieth-Century Poetry

Glossary of literary terms
Table of historical events
Index