1. EARLY STUART DRAMA
Ben Jonson – Beaumont and Fletcher – Chapman; Massinger; Heywood; Marston – Tourneur, Webster, Ford, and Others

2. EARLY STUART VERSE AND PROSE
Francis Bacon – The King James Bible, 1611 – The Metaphysiacls (Donne, Cowley, Marvell) – George Herbert; Crashaw; Vaughan -Cavalier Poets (Herrick, Carew, Suckling, Lovelace, etc.) – Character Writers and Others (Hall, Overbury, Earle, Cowley; Sir Thomas Browne, Fuller, etc.)

3. MILTON AND BUNYAN
John Milton – John Bunyan

4. DRYDEN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
Restoration Drama (D’Avenant and Killigrew, Wycherley and Vanbrugh, Congreve, Otway; Jeremy Collier) – John Dryden – Miscellaneous Writings (Izaak walton, Dorothy Osborne, Pepys and Evelyn, John Aubrey and Anthony Wood; Pamphleteers; Locke, Rochester, Traherne)

5. BOOK SELLING AND NEWS DISTRIBUTION
The Commerce of Literature – Journalism and the Coffee Houses

6. DEFOE AND SWIFT
Daniel Defoe – Jonathan Swift

7. THE PURSUIT OF URBANITY: STEELE TO POPE
Richard Steele – Joseph Addison – The Tatler and The Spectator – Alexander Pope

8. LESSER VERSE AND PROSE 1701-25
Verse Writers ("Hudibras" Butler, Prior, Anne Finch, Ambrose Philips, John Philips, Mandeville, Isaac Watts, Parnell, Allan Ramsay, Henry Carey) – Prose Writers (Temple, Clarendon, Halifax, Burnet, Dennis, Arbunthnot, Berkeley, Law)

9. JOHNSON BEFORE BOSWELL

10. THE NOVEL IN MATURITY
Samuel Richardson – Henry Fielding – Tobias Smollett – Laurence Sterne

11. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DRAMA
Garrick and Others – Farquhar – The Shakespeare Incubus (Rowe, Home) – Minor Comedy and Tragedy (Gay, Fielding, Lillo, etc.) – Goldsmith and Sheridan

12. GRAY, SMART, AND OTHERS: LESSER VERSE AND PROSE
Nature a la Mode (Dyer, Thomson, etc.) – The Cult of Melancholy (Edward Young, Robert Blair, Joseph and Thomas Warton) – The Cult of Antiquity (Walpole, the Ballad collectors, Ossian, Chatterton) – Gray, Collins, and Smart – Miscellaneous Verse and Prose

13. BOSWELL, JOHNSON, AND THE CLUB
James Boswell – Boswell’s Johnson – The Club (Reynolds, Burke, Goldsmith, Gibbon, etc.)