The Norton anthology of English literature: The sixteenth century / The early Seventeenth century - Volume B Stephen Greenblatt, general editor, M.H. Abrams, founding editor.

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v.A. The Middle Ages / James Simpson, Alfred David. Introduction ; Timeline ; Anglo-Saxon literature : Bede (ca. 673-735) and Cædmon's hymn ; The dream of the rood ; Beowulf ; Judith ; The wanderer ; The wife's lament ; Irish literature: Cúchulainn's boyhood deeds ; Early Irish lyrics ; Anglo-Norman literature: The myth of Arthur's return ; Thomas of England ; Ancrene Wisse (Guide for Anchoresses) ; Romance: Marie de France, Sir Orfeo ; Middle English literature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (ca. 1375-1400): Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343-1400) ; John Gower (ca. 1330-1408) ; Thomas Hoccleve (ca. 1367-1426) ; William Langland (ca. 1330-1387) ; Middle English incarnation and crucifixion lyrics : Julian of Norwich ; Margery Kempe ; The York play of the crucifixion : Mystery plays : Middle English lyrics : Sir Thomas Malory (ca. 1405-1471) : Robert Henryson (ca. 1425-ca. 1500) ; Everyman (after 1485) ; Appendixes ; General bibliography ; Literary terminology ; Geographic nomenclature ; British money ; The British baronage ; The royal lines of England and Great Britain ; Religions in England ; Illustration: The universe according to Ptolemy ; v. B. The Sixteenth century and the early Seventeenth century / Stephen Greenblatt, George Logan [and others] v. C. The Restoration and the Eighteenth century / James Noggle, Lawrence Lipking v. D. The Romantic Period / Deidre Sauna Lynch, Jack Stillinger v. E. The Victorian Age / Catherine Robson, Carol T. Christ v. F. The Twentieth Century and after / Jahan Ramazani, Jon Stallworthy.

v. B. The Sixteenth century and the early Seventeenth century / Stephen Greenblatt, George Logan [and others] : The sixteenth century (1485-1603. Introduction ; Timeline ; John Skelton (ca. 1460-1529) ; Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) ; Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder (1503-1542) ; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547) ; Faith in conflict ; The English Bible ; William Tyndale ; Thomas More ; John Calvin ; Anne Askew ; John Foxe ; Book of Common Prayer ; Book of homilies ; Richard Hooker ; Robert Southwell ; Roger Ascham ; Sir Thomas Hoby ; Women in power ; Mary I (Mary Tudor) ; Lady Jane Grey ; Mary, Queen of Scots ; Elizabeth I ; Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599) ; Renaissance love and desire : Thomas, Lord Vaux ; George Gascoigne ; Edward De Vere ; Earl of Oxford ; Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke ; Thomas Lodge ; Henry Constable ; Samuel Daniel ; Michael Drayton ; Thomas Campion ; Sir John Davies ; Barnabe Barnes ; Richard Barnfield ; Richard Linche ; Sir Walter Ralegh (1552-1618) : The early seventeenth century (1603-1660). Introduction ; Timeline ; John Donne (1572-1631) ; Izaak Walton (1593-1683) ; Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) ; Ben Jonson (1572-1637) ; Mary Wroth (1587-1651?) ; John Webster (1580?-1625?) ; Gender relations : conflict and counsel ; Joseph Swetnam ; Rachel Speght ; William Gouge ; Inquiry and experience: Sir Francis Bacon ; William Harvey ; Robert Burton ; Sir Thomas Browne ; George Herbert (1593-1633) ; Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) ; Richard Crashaw (ca. 1613-1649) ; Robert Herrick (1591-1674) ; Thomas Carew (1595-1640) ; Richard Lovelace (1618-1657) ; Katherine Philips (1632-1664) ; Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) ; Crisis of authority: Reporting the news ; Political writing, Writing the self ; Thomas Traherne (1637-1674) ; Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) ; John Milton (1608-1674) ; Appendixes ; General bibliography ; Literary terminology ; Geographic nomenclature ; British money ; The British baronage ; The royal lines of England and Great Britain ; Religions in England ; Illustration: The universe according to Ptolemy ; Illustration: A London playhouse of Shakespeare's time.

v. C. The Restoration and the Eighteenth century / James Noggle, Lawrence Lipking. Introduction ; Timeline ; John Dryden (1631-1700) ; Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) ; John Bunyan (1628-1688) ; John Locke (1632-1704) ; Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) ; Samuel Butler (1612-1680) ; John Wilmot ; Second Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) ; Aphra Behn (1640?-1689) ; William Congreve (1670-1729) ; Mary Astell (1666-1731) ; Daniel Defoe (ca. 1660-1731) ; Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720) ; Low people and high people: Henry Fielding ; Matthew Prior ; Stephen Duck ; Mary Collier ; Mary Barberv ; Mary Jones ; Laurence Sterne ; Thomas Chatterton ; Samuel Johnson ; George Crabbe ; Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) ; Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729) ; Alexander Pope (1688-1744) ; Eliza Haywood (1693?-1756) ; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) ; Debating women : arguments in verse ; Jonathan Swift ; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ; Alexander Pope ; Anne Ingram ; Viscountess Irwin ; Mary Leapor ; John Gay (1685-1732) ; William Hogarth (1697-1764) ; Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) ; James Boswell (1740-1795) ; Frances Burney (1752-1840) ; Liberty: John Locke ; Mary Astell ; James Thomson ; David Hume ; Edmund Burke ; Samuel Johnson ; Olaudah Equiano ; James Thomson (1700-1748) ; Thomas Gray (1716-1771) ; William Collins (1721-1759) ; Christopher Smart (1722-1771) ; Oliver Goldsmith (ca. 1730-1774) ; William Cowper (1731-1800) ; Appendixes : General bibliography ; Literary terminology ; Geographic nomenclature ; British money ; The British baronage ; The royal lines of England and Great Britain ; Religions in England ; Illustration: The universe according to Ptolemy ; v. D. The Romantic Period / Deidre Sauna Lynch, Jack Stillinger. v. E. The Victorian Age / Catherine Robson, Carol T. Christ. v. F. The Twentieth Century and after / Jahan Ramazani, Jon Stallworthy.

v. D. The Romantic Period (1785-1832) / Deidre Sauna Lynch, Jack Stillinge. Introduction; Timeline; Balladry and ballad revivals ; Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825) ; Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) ; Mary Robinson (1757?-1800) ; The slave trade and the literature of abolition ; John Newton ; Thomas Clarkson ; William Cowper ; Olaudah Equiano ; Hannah More ; Eaglesfield Smith ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; William Cobbett ; William Blake (1757-1827) ; Robert Burns (1759-1796) ; The revolution controversy and the "spirit of the age" ; Richard Price ; Edmund Burke ; Mary Wollstonecraft ; Thomas Paine ; James Gillray ; Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) ; Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) ; William Wordsworth (1770-1849) ; Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) ; Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) ; Charles Lamb (1775-1834) ; Jane Austen (1775-1817) ; William Hazlitt (1778-1830) ; Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) ; The gothic and the development of a mass readership ; Horace Walpole ; Anna Letitia Aikin (later Barbauld) ; John Aikin ; William Beckford ; Ann Radcliffe ; Matthew Gregory Lewis ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; George Gordon ; Lord Byron (1788-1824) ; Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) ; John Clare (1793-1864) ; Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835) ; John Keats (1795-1821) ; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) ; Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838).

v. E. The Victorian Age (1830-1901) / Catherine Robson, Carol T. Christ. Introduction ; Timeline ; Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) ; John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) ; John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) ; Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) ; Pre-Raphaelitism: Charles Dickens, John Rushkin, William Michael Rossetti ; Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) ; Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) ; William Morris (1834-1896) ; Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) ; Walter Pater (1839-1894) ; Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) ; Victorian issues: Evolution, Industrialism: progress and decline?, The "woman question": the Victorian debate abour gender, Empire and national identity ; Late Victorians. Michael Field (Katharine Bradley, 1846-1914 and Edith Cooper, 1862-1913) ; Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) ; Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) ; Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) ; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) ; Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) ; Ernest Dowson (1867-1900).

v. F. The Twentieth Century and after / Jahan Ramazani, Jon Stallworthy. Introduction ; Timeline ; Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) ; Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) ; A.E. Housman (1859-1936) ; Voices from World War I: Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, Siegfried Sassoon, Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen, May Wedderburn Cannan, Robert Graves, David Jones ; Modernist manifestos: T.E. Hulme, F.S. Flint and Ezra Pound ; Stevie Smith (1902-1971) ; George Orwell (1903-1950) ; Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) ; W.H. Auden (1907-1973) ; Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) ; Vocies from World War II: Virginia Woolf, Pablo Picasso, Edith Sitwell, Henry Reed, Keith Douglas ; Nation, race, and language: Claude McKay, Louise Bennett, Kamau Brathwaite, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, M. Nourbese Philip, Salman Rushdie, Grace Nichols, Hanif Kureishi ; Doris Lessing (b. 1919) ; Philip Larkin (1922-1985) ; Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923) ; A.K. Ramanujan (1929-1993) ; Thom Gunn (1929-2004) ; Derek Walcott (b. 1930) ; Ted Hughes (1930-1998) ; Harold Pinter (1930-2008) ; Chinua Achebe (b. 1930) ; Alice Munro (b. 1931) ; Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932) ; V.S. Naipaul (b. 1932) ; Tom Stoppard (b. 1937) ; Les Murray (b. 1938) ; Seamus Heaney (b. 1939) ; Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) ; J.M. Coetzee (b. 1940) ; Eavan Boland (b. 1944) ; Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) ; Ian McEwan (b. 1948) ; Paul Muldoon (b. 1951) ; Hanif Kureishi (b. 1954) ; Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955) ; Kiran Desai (b. 1971) ; Zadie Smith (b. 1975) ; Appendixes : General bibliography, Literary terminology, Geographic nomenclature, Map: London in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, British money, The British baronage, The royal lines of England and Great Britain, Religions in England.

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