The textbook, dedicated to the history of the development of English literature of the 19th century, shows the most important patterns of the literary process in this period, as well as the specific features of the work of literary masters. Today, this is the most comprehensive work on this issue in Russian literary studies; it examines not only the work of authors studied in detail in general courses on the history of foreign literature of the 19th century, such as D.G. Byron, P.B. Shelley, W. Scott, C. Dickens, W. M. Thackeray, T. Hardy, O. Wilde, but also other writers, for example W. Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, R. Southey, A. Tennyson, R. Browning, T. Carlyle, J. Meredith, D. G. Rossetti and others, without analysis of whose works the picture of the development of English literature of the 19th century is not clear. would be incomplete.