Chapter 1 The Elizabethan Age ......................................................... 1 William Shakespeare; Sir Philip Sidney; Christopher Marlowe; Edmund Spenser; Ben Jonson Chapter 2 The 17th Century............................................................ 16 John Donne; John Dryden; John Milton; Andrew Marvell; George Herbert Chapter 3 The Classic Age................................................................ 31 Alexander Pope; Edward Young; Samuel Johnson; Thomas Gray Chapter 4 Movement Toward Romanticism................................... 44 William Blake; Edmund Burke; Robert Burns Chapter 5 The Romantic Period I.................................................... 54 William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge Chapter 6 The Romantic Period II .................................................. 69 Percy Bysshe Shelley; John Keats; George Gordon Byron Chapter 7 The Victorian Period....................................................... 87 Matthew Arnold; Robert Browning; Alfred Lord Tennyson Chapter 8 The Poetry of the New Republic................................... 102 Edgar Allan Poe; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Walt Whitman; Emily Dickinson Chapter 9 The Early 20th Century English Poetry....................... 117 William Butler Yeats; D. H. Lawrence Chapter 10 The High Modernism.................................................... 130 T. S. Eliot; Ezra Pound Chapter 11 The 20th Century American Poetry............................. 153 Wallace Stevens; Robert Frost; William Carlos Williams Chapter 12 The 20th Century British Poetry.................................. 163 W. H. Auden; William Empson; Dylan Thomas Chapter 13 Post-Modernism and American Poetry After World War II ............................. 174 Allen Ginsberg; Charles Olson; Robert Lowell Chapter 14 Contemporary British Poetry ....................................... 186 Seamus Heaney; Philip Larkin; Ted Hughes