The poetry of the Earth -The Beginningof Prose -Manipravalam Early Manipravalam Works -Early Champoos -Sandesa Kavyas The Niranam Poets -The Later Champoos -Chandrotsavam Cherusseri's Krishnagatha -The Growth of Prose -Thunchathu Ezhuthachan PoonthanamNambudiri -The Performing Art -Attakkatha Kottayam Tampuran -Unnayi Warrier -Princes and Poets Ramapurathu Warrier (1703-1753) -Kunchan Nambiar (1705-1770) - After Nambiar -The Venmani School -The Modern Age Kerala Varma Valiya Koyitampuran -The Growth of Literary Criticism The Plethora of Plays -A.R.Rajaraja Varma (1863-1918) K.C.Kesava Pillai (1868-1914) -The Essay O.Chandu Menon (1847-1900) -A Religious Awakening C.V.Raman Pillai (1858-1922) -The Romanitc Movement N. Kumaran Asan (1873-1924) -Ulloor Parameswara Iyer (1877-1949) Vallathol Narayana Menon (1878-1958) Literary Criticism: Western Influence -Drama and the Stage Poetry The Second Generation of Romantics Fiction in the Foreground -Literary Criticism