Table of Contents

Abbreviations. 1. English Language. 2. Old English. 3. Middle English:Excluding Chaucer. 4. Middle English: Chaucer. 5. The Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama after 1550. 6. Shakespeare. 7. Renaissance Drama: Excluding Shakespeare. 8. The Earlier Seventeenth Century; Excluding Drama. 9. Milton. 10. The Later Seventeenth Century. 11. The Eighteenth Century. 12. The Nineteenth Century: Romantic Period. 13. The Ninettenth Century: Victorian Period. 14. The Twentieth Century. 15. American Literature in 1900. 16. American Literature: The Twentieth Century. 17. New Literatures in English. 18. Bibliography and Textual Criticisms. Indexes.

About the Author

Peter J. Kitson is Lecturer in English, specializing in Romantic literature, at the University of Wales Bangor. He is editor of Romantic Criticism 1800-1825 (1989) and Coleridge, Keats and Shelley (1995) and co-editor with T. N. Corns of Coleridge and the Armory of the Human Mind (Frank Cass, 1990).