Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction; The Anglo-Saxon or Old English Period 450-1066; The Middle English Period 1066-1485; The Revival of Learning and the Renaissance 1485-1660; Elizabethan Literature 1550-1640; The Puritan Interlude 1640-1660; The Restoration Period 1660-1700; The Transition from Classicism to Romanticism 1700-1800; The Colonial Period 1620-1775; The Romantic Period in England 1790-1832; The Literature of the American Revolution 1765-1800; The Literature of the New Republic 1800-1875; The Victorian Age in England 1837-1901; The Industrial Age in America 1875-1900; The Literature of England in the Twentieth Century; The Literature of America in the Twentieth Century; Appendix A: Periods of English Literature; Appendix B: Periods of American Literature; Appendix C: Rulers of England and Great Britain; Appendix D: Presidents of the United States; Appendix E: Poets Laureate of England; Appendix F: Poets Laureate of the United States; Appendix G: Booker McConnell Prize for Fiction; Appendix H: Winners of the Pulitzer Prizes for Literature; Appendix I: Nobel Prize Winners for Literature; Selected References; Index.

About the Author

Eugene V Moran