The Cambridge History of English and American Literature was published by
Cambridge University Press in 1907–1921. The 18 volumes include 303 chapters and more than 11,000 pages edited and written by a worldwide panel of 171 leading scholars and thinkers of the early twentieth century. The English literature chapters begin with
Old English poetry and end with the late
Victorian era. Coverage of American literature ranges from colonial and revolutionary periods through the early twentieth century.