v. 1. The age of Chaucer -- v. 2. The age of Shakespeare -- v. 3. From Donne to Marvell -- v. 4. From Dryden to Johnson -- v. 5. From Blake to Byron --v. 6. From Dickens to Hardy -- v. 7. The modern age
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Also published as The Pelican guide to English literature by Penguin Books, 1954-1961