Contents: v. 1. <From the beginnings to the cycles of romance>.- v. 2. <The End of the Middle Ages>.- v. 3. <Renascence and Reformation>.- v. 4. <Prose and Poetry sir Thomas North to Michel Drayton>.- v. 5. <The drama to 1642: I.- v6. The drama to 1642: II>.- v. 7. <Cavalier and puritan>.- v. 8. <The age of Dryden>.- v. 9. <From steele and Addison to popl and swift>.- v. 10. <The age of Johnson>.- v. 11. <The period of the french Revolut>.- v. 12. <The nineteenth Century pt.1.>.- v. 13. <The nineteenth century pt.3.>.- v. 15. <General index>