• 1. Study and examination techniques in English literature  2. Revision, project work and research techniques  3. A guide to basic literary terms  4. Practical criticism: poetry  5. Practical criticism: prose  6. Practical criticism: drama  7. Chaucer  8. Elizabethan and Jacobean drama  9. Shakespeare  10. The Metaphysical Poets  11. Milton  12. Restoration drama  13. Pope, Dryden and Swift: Classicism and the eighteenth century  14. The eighteenth and early nineteenth century novel: Defoe, Fielding, Austen and the Brontes  15. Romanticism and the Romantic poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats  16. Gothic  17. Dickens, Thackeray and George Eliot  18. Victorian poets: Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins, Arnold and Hardy  19. Victorian drama: Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw and Wilde  20. War literature  21. Modern and contemporary poetry  22. The modern and contemporary novel  23. Modern and contemporary drama  24. American literature  25. Literary and critical theory

'...gives extremely pertinent advice on the practical criticism of poetry, prose and drama... .Ranging over everything from Chaucer to modern drama this sketches in the background and then cunningly identifies question areas. A good idea...'Times Educational Supplement