CONTENTS:

THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
William Blake
Robert Burns
Mary Wollstonecraft
William Wordsworth
Dorothy Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Charles Lamb
William Hazlitt
Thomas De Quincey
Thomas Love Peacock
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Sir Walter Scott
Walter Savage Landor
Thomas Moore
John Clare
George Darley
Thomas Lovell Beddoes

THE VICTORIAN AGE
Thomas Carlyle
John Henry Cardinal Newman
John Stuart Mill
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Edward Fitzgerald
Robert Browning
Emily Bronte
John Ruskin
Arthur Hugh Clough
Matthew Arnold
Thomas Henry Huxley
George Meredith
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Christina Rossetti
William Morris
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Walter Pater
Gerard Manley Hopkins

LIGHT VERSE
Edward Lear
Lewis Carroll
W. S. Gilbert

VICTORIAN ISSUES
Evolution
Industrialism: Progress or Decline?
The Woman Question

THE NINETIES
William Ernest Henley
Oscar Wilde
Francis Thompson
Rudyard Kipling
Ernest Dowson

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Thomas Hardy
Bernard Shaw
Joseph Conrad
A. E. Housman

POETRY OF WORLD WAR I
Rupert Brooke
Edward Thomas
Siegfried Sassoon
Ivor Gurney
Isaac Rosenberg
Wilfred Owen
May Wedderburn Cannan
David Jones

William Butler Yeats
E. M. Forster
Virginia Woolf
James Joyce
D. H. Lawrence
Edith Sitwell
T. S. Eliot
Katherine Mansfield
Hugh MacDiarmid
Robert Graves
Stevie Smith
George Orwell
Samuel Beckett
W. H. Auden
Louis MacNeice
Dylan Thomas

POETRY OF WORLD WAR II
Henry Reed
Alun Lewis
Keith Douglas
Charles Causley

Doris Lessing
Philip Larkin
Thom Gunn
Edna O’Brien
Ted Hughes
Derek Walcott
Harold Pinter
Geoffrey Hill
Tony Harrison
Tom Stoppard
Seamus Heaney
Susan Hill
Craig Raine
James Fenton

POEMS IN PROCESS

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES

BRITISH MONEY

THE BRITISH BARONAGE

RELIGIOUS SECTS IN ENGLAND

POETIC FORMS AND LITERARY TERMINOLOGY