CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTION
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
1. WYATT AND SURREY
2. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
3. SPENSER
4. THE EPYLLION
5. SHAKESPEARE AND THE SONET SEQUENCE
6. THE LYRIC
7. THE POETRY OF JOHN DONNE
8. GEORGE HERBERT AND THE RELIGIOUS LYRIC
9. ANDREW MARVELL AND THE CAROLINE POETS
10. MILTON
        Poems
        Paradise Lost
        Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes
11. SAMUEL BUTLER AND THE MINOR RESTORATION POETS
12. SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURY PROSE
        Prose before Elizabeth
        Elizabethan Prose
        Seventeenth Century Prose