pt. I. Introduction. General introduction / Rebecca Lemon, Emma Mason, and Jonathan Roberts
The literature of the Bible / Christopher Rowland
Biblical hermeneutics and literary theory / David Jasper
pt. II. Medieval. Introduction / Daniel Anlezark
Old English poetry / Catherine A.M. Clarke
The medieval religious lyric / Douglas Gray
The Middle English mystics / Annie Sutherland
The Pearl-poet / Helen Barr
William Langland / Mary Clemente Davlin
Geoffrey Chaucer / Christiania Whitehead
pt. III. Early modern. Introduction / Roger Pooley
Early modern women / Elizabeth Clarke
Early modern religious prose / Julie Maxwell
Edmund Spenser / Carol V. Kaske
Mary Sidney / Rivkah Zim
William Shakespeare / Hannibal Hamlin
John Donne / Jeanne Shami
George Herbert / John Drury
John Milton / Michael Lieb
John Bunyan / Andrew Bradstock
John Dryden / Gerard Reedy
pt. IV. Eighteenth century and Romantic. Introduction / Stephen Prickett
Eighteenth-century hymn writers / J.R. Watson
Daniel Defoe / Valentine Cunningham
Jonathan Swift / Michael F. Suarez
William Blake / Jonathan Roberts and Christopher Rowland
Women Romantic poets / Penny Bradshaw
William Wordsworth / Deeanne Westbrook
S.T. Coleridge / Graham Davidson
Jane Austen / Michael Giffin
George Gordon Byron / Wolf Z. Hirst
P.B. Shelley / Bernard Beatty
pt. V. Victorian. Introduction / Elisabeth Jay
The Brownings / Kevin Mills
Alfred Tennyson / Kirstie Blair
The Brontës / Marianne Thormählen
John Ruskin / Dinah Birch
George Eliot / Charles LaPorte
Christina Rossetti / Elizabeth Ludlow
G.M. Hopkins / Paul S. Fiddes
Sensation fiction / Mark Knight
Decadence / Andrew Tate
pt. VI. Modernist. Introduction / Ward Blanton
W.B. Yeats / Edward Larrissy
Virginia Woolf / Douglas L. Howard
James Joyce / William Franke
D.H. Lawrence / T.R. Wright
T.S. Eliot / David Fuller
The Great War poets / Jane Potter.