Background Reading on British Literature
Literary Historical Period Overviews
The Anglo-Saxons
Norton Anthology Summary (combined with The Middle Ages)
The Middle Ages
Norton Anthology Summary (combined with the Anglo-Saxons)
The Renaissance
Norton Anthology Summary (The Sixteenth Century)
Norton Anthology Summary (The Early Seventeenth Century)
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
Romanticism
The Victorian Age
The 20th Century