Introduction - Carl Woodring and James Shapiro -- - Old English Poetry - Roberta Frank -- - Middle English Poetry - E. Ruth Harvey -- - Chaucer - George D. Economou -- - Poetry in Scots: Barbour to Burns - David Daiches -- - From Ballads to Betjeman - Carl Woodring -- - Printing and Distribution of Poetry - David McKitterick -- - Varieties of Sixteenth-Century Narrative Poetry - Elizabeth Story Donno -- - Sixteenth Century Lyric Poetry - Richard McCoy -- - Spenser, Sidney, Jonson - Paul Alpers -- - Lyric Poetry from Donne to Philips - Richard Strier -- - Milton - Martin Elsky -- - Dryden and Pope - Richard Feingold -- - Poetry in the Eighteenth Century - Margaret Anne Doody -- - Blake - Morton D. Paley -- - Coleridge - Morton D. Paley -- - Poetry, 1785-1832 - Jerome McGann -- - Byron, Shelley, Keats - Susan M. Levin and Robert Ready -- - Wordsworth and Tennyson - Jerome H. Buckley -- - The Victorian Era - David G. Riede -- - Victorian Religious Poetry - Cary H. Plotkin -- - Pre-Raphaelite Poetry - Carole Silver -- - The 1890s - Karl Beckson -- - 1898-1945: Hardy to Auden - George H. Gilpin -- - Yeats, Lawrence, Eliot - Calvin Bedient -- - Poetry in England, 1945-1990 - Vincent Sherry -- - Poetry in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, 1920-1990 - Edna Longley -- - Brief Biographies of the Poets - Jonathan Gross
