1: The Enlightenment: T. Paine. bage and Holcroft. W. Godwin. -- 2: Preludes to Romanticism: The Gothic novel. Cowper and Crabbe. Blake. White's Selborne. -- 3: The Scottish revival: Forerunners of Burns. Contemporaries and successors of Burns. The poetry of Scott. -- 4: Women of Letters: learned ladies. H. More and others. F. Burney. M. Wollstonecraft, A. Opie, M. Shelley. M. Edgeworth and S. Ferrier. -- 5: Wordsworth, Coleridge and others: S. Rogers, R. Bloomfield. Southey and Landor. -- 6: The triple Peak: Byron, Shelley, Keats. -- 7: Regency prose: C. Robinson. Ch. and M. Lamb. W. Hazlitt. L. Hunt. DeQuincey. -- 8: Conversation Pieces: T. Love Peacock. J. Austen. -- 9: Scottish Criticism and Fiction: The Edimburgh Review, The Quarterly Review and Blackwood's Magazine. -- 10: Lesser Verse and Prose 1810-40: T. More. Humour and Pathos. J. Clare and others. Miscellaneous prose. -- 11: Oracular Prose: Carlyle. Macaulay. Ruskin. -- 12: The Victorian Kaleidoscope. -- 13: Victorian Women Novelists: The Brontës. G. Eliot. Mrs. Gaskell. -- 14: Dickens, Thackeray. Trollope and others. -- 15: Tennyson and the Brownings. -- 16: The Arnold generation. -- 17: The Long Afternoon: Fitzgerald. D.G. Rossetti. Swinburne. W. Pater. D. Boucicault. T.W. Robertson. H. A. Jones. A.W. Pinero. W.S. Gilbert. O. Wilde. S. Phillips. -- 19: The Closing of an age. Pessimism and Realism. The Aesthetic Movement. The New Romantics. Fin de siècle. -- 20: Post-Victorian verse and prose. Fiction. -- 21: Shaw and contemporary playwrights.