Lives of the poets / Michael Schmidt.

The match / Joseph Brodsky ... [et al.]
Our sublime superiors
The anthology
Where it begins / Richard Rolle of Hampole, Robert Manning of Brunne, John Barbour
Tutelary spirits / Richard II and John Wycliffe
"In englesh forto make a book" / John Gower
Southwark / John Gower, Boethius, Romance of the rose, Geoffrey Chaucer
"And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres" / William Langland
"Go, litel bok" / Geoffrey Chaucer
"Sing cuccu!" / Anon.
Entr'acte / Charles of Orleans ... [et al.]
"Merely written for the people" / ballads: Bishop Percy, Sir Walter Scott
"Not as I suld, I wrait, but as I couth" / Robert Henryson ... [et al.]
The watershed / William Caxton
Motley / John Skelton
Petrarch comes to England / Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey
The green knight / Thomas Lord Vaux ... [et al.]
"A little man with little hands and little cuffs" / Edmund Spenser
"Of love, and love, and love" / Sir Walter Ralegh ... [et al.]

Substance with and without rites / George Chapman, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare
Bad feelings / William Shakespeare, Emilia Lanyer
Words strung on air / Thomas Campion
Singing school / Ben Jonson, Lady Mary Wroth
"The world's a bubble" / John Donne, Sir Francis Bacon
Pastoral care / Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan
The eccentric / John Milton, Anne Bradstreet, Margaret Cavendish
An end of delicacy / Richard Lovelace ... [et al.]
New pilots / John Dryden ... [et al.]
Three friends / Jonathan Swift, John Gay, Alexander Pope
Dead pastoral / James Thomson
Doctor Johnson
Methods and madnesses / Thomas Gray, Christopher Smart, Oliver Goldsmith
"The stricken deer" / William Cowper, Charlotte Smith
Youth and age / Thomas Chatterton, Phillis Wheatley, George Crabbe
Killing Doctor Johnson / William Blake
Humble truth / James MacPherson, Robert Burns

Liberty versus legitimacy / William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Marble into flesh, and spirit / Walter Savage Landor ... [et al.]
"Touch has a memory" / John Clare ... [et al.]
Long gray beards and glittering eyes / William Barnes, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Snapping asunder the leading-strings / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ... [et al.]
"They lived once thus at Venice" and in Camden / Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Walt Whitman
Winter is good / Charlotte Brontë ... [et al.]
The phantom of ourselves / Matthew Arnold, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Gerard Manley Hopkins
A beginning of the end of Victorian poetry / Thomas Hardy ... [et al.]
"The land of lost content" / A.E. Housman ... [et al.]
"A language not to be betrayed..." / W.B. Yeats ... [et al.]
"The lighting of the lamps" / T.E. Hulme ... [et al.]
A pause for breath
"Arranging, deepening, enchanting" / Wallace Stevens ... [et al.]
"What shall I say, because talk I must?" / William Carlos Williams ... [et al.]

Reinvention / Hugh MacDiarmid ... [et al.]
"The troubles of a book" / Robert Graves ... [et al.]
"A low, dishonest decade" / Edgell Rickword ... [et al.]
Going west / Yvor Winters ... [et al.]
Apocalypse and after / Dylan Thomas ... [et al.]
The other war / Keith Douglas .. [et al.]
Candors / Robert Lowell ... [et al.]
Language and the body / Allen Ginsberg ... [et al.]
Inventing and reinventing the wheel / Geoffrey Hill ... [et al.]
Beyond stylistic irony / Iain Crichton Smith ... [et al.]
"An instance of itself" / Frank O'Hara ... [et al.]
Speaking and speaking for / Seamus Heaney ... [et al.]
Loose ends.