37 essays in an expanded edition of the author's major volume of criticism.

    1. Medieval and Renaissance poets: Langland to Spenser.--v. 2. Elizabethan and Jacobean poets: Marlowe to Marvell.--v. 3. restoration and Augustan poets: Milton to Goldsmith.--v. 4. Romantic poets: Blake to Poe.--v. 5. Victorian and Edwardian poets: Tennyson to Yeats.