I. THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD ...11 // II. THE PERIOD AFTER 1066 . 12 // III. ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE FOURTEENTH // AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES ...14 // IV. THE RENAISSANCE IN ENGLAND ...19 // 1. The Reformation ...20 // 2. Humanist Prose ...21 // 3. Poetry ...22 // 4. Drama ...23 // V. ENGLISH LITERATURE // IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY . . . . 32 // 1. Puritanism in English Literature ...34 // 2. Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century ...35 // 3. Poetry ...36 // 4. Restoration Comedy ... 36 // VI. ENGLISH LITERATURE // IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ...38 // 1. Journalism ...38 // 2. The Rise of the Novel ...39 // 3. Classical Poetry ...42 // 4. Drama ...43 // VII. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD ...44 // 1. Prose. The Gothic Novel. The Historical Novel. The Transition // to Realism ...44 // 2. Poetry ...46 // VHI. ENGLISH LITERATURE // INTHENINETEENTHCENTURY ...53 // 1. Realism and Naturalism in the Nineteenth Century Novel . 53 // 9 2. Poetry. The Chartist Poets. Victorian Poetry. // The Pre-Raphaelites ...60 // 3. Drama ...62 // IX. ENGLISH LITERATURE // IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ...64 // 1. Prose in the First Half of the Twentieth Century ... 64 // 2. The English Novel Since World War II ...74 // 3. Poetry ... 83 // 4. Drama ...87 // 10 Contents // I. THE COLONIAL PERIOD ...101 // II. THE PERIOD OF THE WAR // OFINDEPENDENCE ...103 // III. NINETEENTH CENTURY PROSE ...105 // 1. The First Authors after Independence ...107 // 2. The Transcendentalist Movement ...108 // 3. Symbolism in American Prose ...111 // 4. American Humour ...113 // 5. The Psychological Novel ...115 // IV. NINETEENTH CENTURY POETRY ...118 // V. TWENTIETH CENTURY PROSE ...123 // 1. Realism and Naturalism in American Literature ... 125 // 2. The Novel since World War I ...129 // 3. The Novel since World War II ...137 // VI. TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY ...144 // VII. THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. . 148 // VIII. THE AMERICAN THEATRE ...151