A Short History of English Literature / Emile Legouis.

1. Anglo-Sexon literature;
2. From the norman conquest to chaucer;
3. From 14th century;
4. Geoffrey chaucer;
5. 15th Century from the death of Chaucer to the renaissance;
6. Preparation for the renaissance;
7. The reformation and the religious controversies from 1525-1578;
8. Poetry: Wyatt and surrey, Sackville, Gascoigen;
9. The theater from 1520-1578;
10.Flowering of the renaissance;
11. The leader;
12. Poetry from 1590-1623;
13. Prose form 1578-1625;
14. Drama on the renaissance;
15. Shakespeare's play;
16. Shakespeare contemporary and his immediate successors;
17. Shakespeare successors the theatre under Charles I;
18. The end of the renaissance;
19. Poetry from 1625-1660;
20. Milton;
21. Restoration literature;
22. The 18th century (1700-40);
23. The 18th century (1740-70);
24. The 18th century (1700-98);
25. 18th century drama;
26. Romanticism;
27. The Victorian era;
28. From 1800 to the present day;