Includes Index

Contents: The Middle Ages -- Anglo-saxon literature: the dream of the rood -- Beowulf -- Anglo-norman literature:marie de France -- Middle english literature in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- Christ's humanity: William Langland -- Julian of Norwich -- Margery Kempe -- The York play of Crucifixion -- Sir Thomas Malory -- The Sixteenth century: Sir Thomas Wyatt The Elder -- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey -- The English bible -- Elizabeth I -- Edmund Spenser -- Sir Walter Raleigh -- Sir Philip Sdney -- Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke --Christopher Marlowe -- William Shakespeare -- Thomas Nashe --The early Seventeenth Century -- John Donne -- Aemilia Layner -- Ben Jonson -- Mary Wroth -- Thomas Hobbes --George Herbert -- Robert Herrick -- Richard Lovelace -- Katherine Philips -- Andrew Marvell -- Margaret Cavendish -- John Milton -- William Collins -- William Cowper -- Olaudah Equiano -- Frances Burney -- Poems in process -- Selected bibliographies -- Appendixes -- Permissions -- Acknowlegdements -- Index.