Elements of Poetry—Diction Part One English Renaissance Chapter One Edmund Spenser Elements of Poetry—Tone and Speaker Chapter Two Christopher Marlowe Elements of Poetry—Rhyme 1 Chapter Three William Shakespeare Elements of Poetry—Rhythm and Meter 2 Part Two Early Seventeenth Century English Poetry Chapter Four John Donne Elements of Poetry—Figure of Speech 1 Chapter Five George Herbert Elements of Poetry—Figure of Speech 2 Chapter Six John Milton Part Three English Romanticism Chapter Seven William Blake Chapter Eight: Robert Burns Chapter Nine William Wordsworth Chapter Ten George Gordon Byron Chapter Eleven Percy Bysshe Shelley Chapter Twelve John Keats Part Four: Victorian Age Chapter Thirteen Alfred Tennyson Chapter Fourteen Elizabeth Barrett Browning Chapter Fifteen Robert Browning Chapter Sixteen Matthew Arnold Part Five English Literature of the 20th Century Chapter Seventeen William Butler Yeats