Volume 5 of a 5-vol. set. Includes indexes to all five vols. Includes Thomas Hardy's biographical summary and critical introduction of poems by William Barnes

General Introduction -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) -- Poems commonly attributed to Chaucer -- William Langley of Langland (born about 1332) -- John Lydgate (1370-1440) -- Thomas Occleve (1365?-1450?) -- James the first of Scotland (1394-1437) -- Robert Henryson (1423?-1480?) -- William Dunbar (1450?-1513?) -- Gawain Douglas (1474-1522) -- Stephen Hawes (d. 1530?) --John Skelton (1460?-1529) -- Sir David Lyndesay (1490?- 1558) -- The hope of immorality: Ballads -- Sir Thomas Wyatt (1517?-1547) - The Earl of Surrey (1517?-1547) -- George Gascoigne (1536?-1577) -- Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst (1536-1608) -- Edmund Spenser (1552-1598) -- Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) -- Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628) -- Sir Edward Dyer (1550?-1607) -- Henry Constable (1555-1615?) -- Thomas Watson (1557?-1592?) -- John Lyly (1554-1606) -- George I'eele (1558?-1592?) -- Robert Greene (1560?-1592?) -- Christopher Marlowe (1564-1592) -- Thomas Lodge (1556?-1625) -- William Warner (1550?-1609) -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) -- Samuel Daniel (1562-1619) -- Richard Barnfield (1574-1627) -- Robert Southwell (1562?-1594) -- Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) -- Elizabeth Miscellanies -- George Chapman (1557? 1559?-1634) -- Michael Drayton (1563-1631) -- Joseph Hall (1574-1656) -- John Marston (?-?) -- Sir John Davies (d. 1626) -- John Donne (1573-1631)