From the CD + Book - Library edition.
Part 1. Lecture 1. Anglo-Saxon roots--Pessimism and comradeship -- lecture 2. Chaucer--Social diversity -- lecture 3. Chaucer--a man of unusual cultivation -- lecture 4. Spense--The Faerie Queene -- lecture 5. Early drama--Low comedy and religion -- lecture 6. Marlowe--controversy and danger -- lecture 7. Shakespeare the man-- The road to the Globe -- lecture 8. Shakespeare--the mature years -- lecture 9. Shakespeare's rivals--Jonson and Webster -- lecture 10. The King James Bible--English most elegant -- lecture 11. The metaphysicals--conceptual daring -- lecture 12. Paradise Lost--a new language for poetry -- Part 2. lecture 13. Turmoil makes for good literature -- lecture 14. The Augustans: order, decorum, and wit -- lecture 15. Swift: anger and satire -- lecture 16. Johnson: bringing order to the language -- lecture 17. Defore: Crusoe and the rise of capitalism -- lecture 18. Behn: emancipation in the Restoration -- lecture 19. The golden age of fiction -- lecture 20. Gibbon: window into 18th- century England -- lecture 21. Equiano; the inhumanity of slavery -- lecture 22. Women poets: the minor voice -- lecture 23. Wollstonecraft: "First of a new genus" -- lecture 24. Blake: 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 Bronte
lecture 36. Voices of Victorian poetry
Part 4. lecture 37. Eliot
fiction and moral reflection
lecture 39. The British bestseller
lecture 40. Heart of Darkenss
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.