PREFACE TO THE NEW REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION
REFERENCES
ILLUSTRATIONS
Part One: Early And Medleval English Literature
CHAPTERS
1. The Making of England
The Britons
--The Roman Conquest
--The English Conquest
--The Social Condition of the Anglo-Saxons
--Anglo-Saxon Religious
Belief and Its Influence
2. Beowulf
Anglo-Saxon Poetry
--The Story of Beowulf
--Analysis of Its Content
--Features of Beowulf
3. Feudal England
The I-knish Invasion
--The Norman Conquest
--The Influence of the Norman Conquest on the English Language
--Social Feature of the Feudal England
--The Miseries of the Peasants.
--The Rising of 1381
The Content of the Romance
--The Romance Cycles
--The Class Nature of the Romance
--Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur
4. Langland
Piers the Plowman and Its Author
--A Picture of Feudal England
--Artistic Features
5. The English Ballads
Oral Literature,
--The Ballads
--The Robin Hood Ballads
6. Chaucer
Life
--Chaucer's Literary Career,
--Troilus and Criseyde
--The Canterbury Tales (1387--1400)
Part Two: The English Renaissance
Part Three: The Period Of The English Bourgeois Revolution
Part Four: The Eighteenth Century
Part Five: Romanticism In England
Part Six: English Critical Realism
Part Seven: Prose-Writers And Poets Of The Mid And Late 19th Century
Part Eight: Twentieth Century English Literature
Part Nine: Poets and Novelists Who Wrote Both Before and After The Second World War