Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

v. 1. Classical criticism / edited by George A. Kennedy -- v. 2. The Middle Ages / edited by Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson -- v. 3. The Renaissance / edited by Glyn P. Norton -- v. 4. The eighteenth century / edited by H.B. Nisbet and Claude Rawson -- v. 5. Romanticism -- v. 6. The nineteenth century, c. 1830-1914 / edited by M. A. R. Habib -- v. 7. Modernism and the New Criticism / edited by A. Walton Litz, Louis Menand, and Lawrence Rainey -- v. 9. Twentieth-century historical, philosophical and psychological perspectives / edited by Christa Knellwolf and Christopher Norris ; assistant editor, Jessica Osborn