Table of Contents:
- 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 / edited by Marshall Brown
- 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. 8. From formalism to poststructuralism / edited by Raman Selden
- v. 9. Twentieth-century historical, philosophical, and psychological perspectives / edited by Christa Knellwolf and Christopher Norris ; assistant editor Jessica Osborn.