Chapter One Early and Medieval English Literature GeOffrey Chaucer Chapter Two The English Renaissance William Shakespeare Francis Bacon Chapter Three The Seventeenth Century John Milton John Bunyan Chapter Four The Eighteenth Century Daniel Defoe Jonathan Swift William Blake Chapter Five Romanticism in England William Wordsworth George Gordon Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley John Keats Jane Austen Chapter Six The Victorian Age Charles Dickens William Makepeace Thackeray George Eliot The Bronte Sisters Elizabeth Barret Browning Chapter Seven The Twentieth Century Thomas Hardy Oscar Wilde D. H. Lawrence Virginia Woolf James Joyce Joseph Gonrad Chapter Eight The Postwar British Literature William Golding Iris Murdoch John Fowles