(Several synoptic guides, but much is by period...)
 TITLE        The Cambridge guide to English literature / [compiled by] Michael
                Stapleton.
 PUBLISHER    Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University
                Press ; Feltham, Middlesex : Newnes Books ; Rushden, Northants
                : distributed for them by Hamlyn Pub. Group, 1983.
 Leyburn-Reference      PR85 .C28 1983                 


 AUTHOR       Sampson, George, 1873-1950.
 TITLE        The concise Cambridge history of English literature.
 EDITION      3rd ed., revised throughout and with additional chapters on the
                literature of the United States of America and the mid
                twentieth-century literature of the English-speaking world by
                R. C. Churchill.
 PUBLISHER    London, Cambridge U.P., 1970.
 Leyburn-Reference      PR85 .S34 1970                 


 TITLE        Literary history of the United States. Editors: Robert E. Spiller
                [and others]
 EDITION      4th ed., rev.
 PUBLISHER    New York, Macmillan [c1974]
 Leyburn-Reference      PS88 .L522 1974 v. 1           


 AUTHOR       Bennett, J. A. W. (Jack Arthur Walter), 1911-1981.
 TITLE        Middle English literature / J.A.W. Bennett ; edited and completed
                by Douglas Gray.
 PUBLISHER    Oxford : Clarendon, 1986.
 Leyburn-Reference      PR83 .O8 v.1 pt.2              


 AUTHOR       Bennett, H. S. (Henry Stanley), 1889-
 TITLE        Chaucer and the fifteenth century.
 PUBLISHER    Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1947.
 Leyburn-Reference      PR83 .O8 v.2, pt.1             


 AUTHOR       Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever), 1866-1954.
 TITLE        English literature at the close of the middle ages / by E. K.
                Chambers.
 PUBLISHER    Oxford : Clarendon press, 1945.
 Leyburn-Reference      PR83 .O8 v.2, pt.2             


 AUTHOR       Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963.
 TITLE        English literature in the sixteenth century : excluding drama /
                by C. S. Lewis.
 PUBLISHER    Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1954.
 Leyburn-Reference      PR83 .O8 v.3                   


 AUTHOR       Wilson, F. P. (Frank Percy), 1889-1963.
 TITLE        The English drama, 1485-1585 / by F. P. Wilson ; edited with a
                bibliography by G. K. Hunter.
 PUBLISHER    New York : Oxford University Press, c1968, t. p. 1969.
 Leyburn Library        PR641 .W58 1969                


 AUTHOR       Bush, Douglas, 1896-
 TITLE        English literature in the earlier seventeenth century, 1600-1660
                / by Douglas Bush.
 PUBLISHER    Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1945.
 Leyburn-Reference      PR83 .O8 v.5                   


 AUTHOR       Sutherland, James Runcieman, 1900-
 TITLE        English literature of the late seventeenth century / by James
                Sutherland.
 PUBLISHER    New York : Oxford University Press, 1969.
 Leyburn-Reference      PR83 .O8 v.6                   


 AUTHOR       Rothstein, Eric.
 TITLE        Restoration and eighteenth-century poetry 1660-1780 / Eric
                Rothstein.
 PUBLISHER    Boston : Routledge & K. Paul, 1981.
 Leyburn Library        PR502 .R58 vol.3               


 AUTHOR       Dobree, Bonamy, 1891-
 TITLE        English literature in the early eighteenth century, 1700-1740 /
                by Bonamy Dobree.
 PUBLISHER    Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1959.
 Leyburn-Reference      PR83 .O8 v.7                   


 AUTHOR       Butt, John Everett.
 TITLE        The mid-eighteenth century / by John Butt ; edited and completed
                by Geoffrey Carnall.
 PUBLISHER    Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,
                1978.
 Leyburn-Reference      PR83 .O8 v.8                   


 AUTHOR       Renwick, W. L. (William Lindsay), 1889-
 TITLE        English literature, 1789-1815 / by W. L. Renwick.
 PUBLISHER    Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1963.
 Leyburn-Reference      PR83 .O8 v.9                   


 AUTHOR       Jack, Ian Robert James.
 TITLE        English literature, 1815-1832 / by Ian Jack.
 PUBLISHER    Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1963.
 Leyburn-Reference      PR83 .O8 v.10                  


 AUTHOR       Turner, Paul, 1917-
 TITLE        English literature, 1832-1890 : excluding the novel 
 PUBLISHER    Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford
                University Press, 1989.
 Leyburn-Reference      PR83 .O8 v.11 pt.1             


 AUTHOR       Stewart, J. I. M. (John Innes Mackintosh), 1906-
 TITLE        Eight modern writers, by J. I. M. Stewart.
 PUBLISHER    Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1963.
 Leyburn-Reference      PR83 .O8 v.12                  


 TITLE        British writers / edited under the auspices of the British
                Council, Ian Scott-Kilvert, general editor.
 PUBLISHER    New York : Scribner, c1979-1984.
 Leyburn-Reference      PR85 .B688 v. 1