Part 1. lecture 1. Anglo-Saxon roots
Pessimism and comradeship
a man of unusual cultivation
lecture 7. Shakespeare the man
lecture 9. Shakespeare's rivals
lecture 10. The King James Bible
lecture 11. The metaphysicals
lecture 12. Paradise lost
a new language for poetry.
Part 2. lecture 13. Turmoil makes for good literature
lecture 14. The Augustans
bringing order to the language
Crusoe and the rise of capitalism
emancipation in the Restoration
lecture 19. The golden age of fiction
window into 18th-century England
the inhumanity of slavery
lecture 23. Wollstonecraft
mythic universes and poetry.
Part 3. lecture 25. Scott and Burns
lecture 26. Lyrical ballads
lecture 27. Mad, bad Byron
lecture 30. Miss Austen and Mrs Radcliffe
lecture 31. Pride and prejudice
growth of the realistic novel
lecture 34. Wuthering Heights
lecture 35. Jane Eyre and the other Brontë
lecture 36. Voices of Victorian poetry.
Part 4. lecture 37. Eliot
fiction and moral reflection
lecture 39. The British bestseller
lecture 40. Heart of darkness
lecture 42. Shaw and Pygmalion
lecture 43. Joyce and Yeats
giants of Irish literature
lecture 44. Great war, great poetry
lecture 45. Bloomsbury and the Bloomsberries
lecture 46. 20th century English poetry
lecture 47. British fiction from James to Rushdie
lecture 48. New theatre, new literary worlds.