[The Puritan Movement.] [Changing Ideals.] [Literary Characteristics.] [The Transition Poets.] [Samuel Daniel.] [The Song Writers.] [The Spenserian Poets.] [The Metaphysical Poets.] [John Donne.] [George Herbert.] [The Cavalier Poets.] [Thomas Carew.] [Robert Herrick.] [Suckling and Lovelace.] [John Milton.] [The Prose Writers.] [John Bunyan.] [Robert Burton.] [Thomas Browne.] [Thomas Fuller.] [Jeremy Taylor]. [Richard Baxter.] [Izaak Walton.] [Summary.] [Bibliography.] [Questions.] [Chronology.]
[CHAPTER VIII. PERIOD OF THE RESTORATION]
[History of the Period.] [Literary Characteristics.] [John Dryden.] [Samuel Butler.] [Hobbes and Locke.] [Evelyn and Pepys.] [Summary.] [Bibliography.] [Questions.] [Chronology.]
[CHAPTER IX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE]
[History of the Period.] [Literary Characteristics.] [The Classic Age.] [Alexander Pope.] [Jonathan Swift.] [Joseph Addison.] ["The Tatler" and "The Spectator."] [Samuel Johnson.] [Boswell's "Life of Johnson."] [Later Augustan Writers.] [Edmund Burke.] [Edward Gibbon.] [The Revival of Romantic Poetry.] [Thomas Gray.] [Oliver Goldsmith.] [William Cowper.] [Robert Burns.] [William Blake.] [The Minor Poets of the Romantic Revival.] [James Thomson.] [William Collins.] [George Crabbe.] [James Macpherson.] [Thomas Chatterton.] [Thomas Percy.] [The First English Novelists.] [Meaning of the Novel.] [Precursors of the Novel.] [Discovery of the Modern Novel.] [Daniel Defoe.] [Samuel Richardson.] [Henry Fielding.] [Smollett and Sterne.] [Summary.] [Bibliography.] [Questions.] [Chronology.]
[CHAPTER X. THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM]
[Historical Summary.] [Literary Characteristics of the Age.] [The Poets of Romanticism.] [William Wordsworth.] [Samuel Taylor Coleridge.] [Robert Southey.] [Walter Scott.] [Byron.] [Percy Bysshe Shelley.] [John Keats.] [Thomas De Quincey.] [Jane Austen.] [Walter Savage Landor.] [Summary.] [Bibliography.] [Questions.] [Chronology.]
[CHAPTER XI. THE VICTORIAN AGE]
[Historical Summary.] [Literary Characteristics.] [Poets of the Victorian Age.] [Alfred Tennyson.] [Robert Browning.] [Minor Poets of the Victorian Age.] [Elizabeth Barrett.] [Rossetti.] [Morris.] [Swinburne.] [Novelists of the Victorian Age.] [Charles Dickens.] [William Makepeace Thackeray.] [George Eliot.] [Minor Novelists of the Victorian Age.] [Charles Reade.] [Anthony Trollope.] [Charlotte Brontë.] [Bulwer Lytton.] [Charles Kingsley.] [Mrs. Gaskell.] [Blackmore.] [Meredith.] [Hardy.] [Stevenson.] [Essayists of the Victorian Age.] [Macaulay.] [Carlyle.] [Ruskin.] [Matthew Arnold.] [Newman.] [The Spirit of Modern Literature.] [Summary.] [Bibliography.] [Questions.] [Chronology.]