A History of English literature

v. 1. Old and Middle English literature from the beginnings to 1485, by G. K. Anderson.

v. 2. The literature of the English Renaissance, 1485-1600, by H. Craig.

v. 3. The literature of the Restoration and the eighteenth century, 1660-1798, by L. I. Bredvold.

v. 4. English literature of the 19th and the early 20th centuries, 1798 to the First World War, by J. W. Beach.