A Note on the Text Introduction: Poets' Corners: The Development of a Canon of English Literature 1. Old English Literature 2. Medieval Literature io66-110 3. Renaissance and Reformation: Literature 1510-1620 4. Revolution and Restoration: Literature 1620-1690 5. Eighteenth-Century Literature 1690-1780 6. The Literature of the Romantic Period 1780-1830 7. High Victorian Literature 1830-1880 8. Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature 1880-1920 9. Modernism and its Alternatives: Literature 1920-1945 10. Post-War and Post-Modern Literature Chronology Index