Preface, I The General Background, II Literature in Finnish before the Nineteenth Century, III The Beginnings of Swedish Literature in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, IV Swedish Literature in the Nineteenth Century from the Turku Romanticists, Runeberg and Topelius, through Wecksell, V Literature in Finnish from the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century through Kivi, VI Literature in Finnish in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: Realists and Folk Writers, VII Literature in Finnish in the Twentieth Century from 1901 to the Independence, VIII Literature in Finnish between the Two World Wars, IX Before and after World War II, X Postwar Modernism, XI Swedish Literature in Finland at the End of the Nineteenth and the Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries, Notes, Index of Names and Titles