Includes Index.

I. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. — II. The End of the Middle Ages. — III. Renascence and Reformation. — IV. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. — V. The Drama to 1642, Part I. — VI. The Drama to 1642, Part II. — VII. Cavalier and Puritan. — VIII. The Age of Dryden. — IX. From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift. — X. The Age of Johnson. — XI. The Period of the French Revolution. — XII. The Nineteenth Century, Part I. — XIII. The Nineteenth Century, Part II. — XIV. Empire and After: from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century in Britain and Overseas. — XV. The Literature of the USA from the Colonial Period to Henry James. — XVI. The Age of T.S. Eliot: The Mid-Twentieth-Century Literature of the English Speaking World.

This book provides a comprehensive and lively-minded survey, guide and reference book to the world's literature in the English Language. This new edition, prepared by R.C. Churchill, brings substantial new chapters, treating the literature of the U.S.A. in extenso and the literature in English of Ireland, India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Malasya, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies, South Africa and the new African states.