The Student Text presents a brief introduction for each major period, author information, literature selections, and questions for thought and discussion.

Discusses cultural issues from eight literary periods in light of Scripture: Old English, Middle English, Tudor, Stuart, Neo-classical, Romantic, Victorian, and Modern. Trace English Christianity from its beginnings to the present. Authors covered include: Wycliffe, Chaucer, Tyndale, Foxe, Spenser, Shakespeare, Sir Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson, John Milton, John Bunyon, Jonathan Swift, the Wesleys, Lord Byron, Lewis Carroll, James Joyce, and Rudyard Kipling.