[1.] The problem The scholar-critic / by Jacques Barzun -- Literary scholarship and the teaching of English / by Lewis Leary -- [2.] The periods Beowulf, Chaucer, and their backgrounds / by George K, Anderson -- Shakespeare and his times / by Gerald E. Bentley -- The seventeenth century / by Merritt Y. Hughes -- The eighteenth century / by James L. Clifford -- The romantic movement / by Richard Harter Fogle -- The Victorian period / by Lionel Stevenson -- American literature / by Leslie A. Fiedler -- Contemporary British literature / by Fred B. Miller -- Contemporary American literature / by R.W.B. Lewis -- [3.] The genres Modern literary criticism / by William Van O'Connor -- Poetry / by George Arms -- The novel / by Bradford A. Booth -- The drama / by Henry Popkin -- Comparative literature / by Charlton Laird -- The public arts and the private sensibility / by Patrick D. Hazard -- Literary audience / by Lennox Grey
