First Volume. The fiirst books in the world
The sacred books of the east
Greek myths and the poets
Second Volume. William Shakespeare 1564-1616
Pepys, Dryden, and the Restoration dramatists
French literature in the age of Louis XIV
Pope, Addison, Steele, Swift
The eighteenth-century poets
Dr. Johnson and his circle
Edward Gibbon and other eighteenth-century prose-writers
The literature that made the revolution
Goethe, Schiller, and Lessing
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, and Blake
Third Volume. Scott, Dumas, and Hugo
Early nineteenth-century essayists
The nineteenth-century French writers
Modern writers, American and European
English poetry since Swinburne
