v.1, From the beginnings to the cycles of romance.- v.2, The end of the Middle ages.- v.3, Renaiscence and reformation.- v.4, Prose and poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton.- v.5-6, The drama to 1642, pt. 1-2.- v.7, Cavalier and Puritan.- v.8, The age of Dryden.- v.9, From Steele and Addison to Pope and Swift.- v.10, The age of Johnson.- v.11, The period of the French revolution.- v. 12-14, The nineteenth century.- v.15, General index