6The Norman Conquest and Its Earliest Literature.
60The Faerie Queene.
7The Morning Twilight of English Literature.
61Other Writers of the Age of Spenser.
8Chaucer, and the Early Reformation.
62Origin of the English Drama.
9Chaucer (Continued).—Reforms in Religion and Society.
63Other Dramatic Writers before Shakspeare.
10Chaucer (Continued).—Progress of Society, and of Language.
64The Power of Shakspeare.
11The Barren Period Between Chaucer and Spenser.
65The Grounds of His Fame.
12Spenser and the Elizabethan Age.
66Other Dramatic Writers of the Age of Shakspeare.
13Illustrations of the History in the Faerie Queene.
67Birth and Early Life of Bacon.
14The English Drama.
68Early Versions of the Scriptures.
15William Shakspeare.
69Historical Facts.
16William Shakspeare (Continued).
70The Blind Poet.
17Bacon, and the Rise of the New Philosophy.
71Cowley and Milton.
18The English Bible.
72Samuel Butler.
19John Milton, and the English Commonwealth.
73Izaak Walton.
20The Poetry of Milton.
74Other Writers of the Age.
21Cowley, Butler, and Walton.
75The Court of Charles II.
22Dryden, and the Restored Stuarts.
76The English Divines.
23The Religious Literature of the Great Rebellion and of the Restoration.
77Other Theological Writers.
24The Drama of the Restoration.
78Diarists and Antiquarians.
25Pope, and the Artificial School.
79The License of the Age.
26Addison, and the Reign of Queen Anne.
80Tragedy.
27Steele and Swift.
81Other Writers of the Period.
28The Rise and Progress of Modern Fiction.
82The Character of the Age.
29Sterne, Goldsmith, and Mackenzie.
83Other Writers of the Age.
30The Historical Triad in the Sceptical Age.
84The New Age.
31Samuel Johnson and His Times.
85The Subjective School.
32The Literary Forgers in the Antiquarian Age.
86The Sceptical Age.
33Poetry of the Transition School.
87Other Contributors to History.
34The Later Drama.
88Early Life and Career.
35The New Romantic Poetry: Scott.
89The Eighteenth Century.
36The New Romantic Poetry: Byron and Moore.
90The Transition Period.
37The New Romantic Poetry (Continued).
91Other Writers of the Transition School.
38Wordsworth, and the Lake School.
92The Progress of the Drama.
39The Reaction in Poetry.
93Other Humorists and Dramatists of the Period.
40The Later Historians.
94Other Writers on Various Subjects.
41The Later Novelists as Social Reformers.
95The New Romantic Poetry: Scott.
42The Later Writers.
96The New Romantic Poetry: Byron and Moore.
43English Journalism.
97Robert Burns.
44Literature and Science.
98Other Writers of the Period.
45The Uses of Literature.
99The New School.
46The Lineage of the Anglo-Saxon.
100Tennyson and the Brownings.
47Biography.
101Other Poets of the Latest Period.
48Norman Rule.
102New Materials.
49Other Principal Latin Chroniclers of the Early Norman Period.
103Other Historians of the Latest Period.
50Other Norman Writers of the Twelfth Century.
104The Later Novelists as Social Reformers.
51Semi-saxon Literature.
105Other Novelists.
52Other Writers of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, Who Preceded Chaucer.
106Writers on Science and Philosophy.
53The Beginning of a New Era.
107English Journalism.
54Historical Facts.
108The End.