CHAPTER Ⅰ ENGLISH LITERATURE TO THE TIME OF CHAUCER

Ⅰ Old English Poetry：Beowulf

Ⅱ Old English Prose：Bede and Alfred

Ⅲ Chivalry and Romance

Ⅳ Folk Tales and Folk Songs

CHAPTER Ⅱ CHAUCER AND THE 15TH CENTURY

Ⅰ Langland,Wycliffe and the Lollards

Ⅱ Chaucer and His Canterbury Tale

Ⅲ The Popular Ballad

Ⅳ Forms of Early Drama

CHAPTER Ⅲ THE RENAISSANCE

Ⅰ Humanism in England

Ⅱ Non-dramatic Poetry

Ⅲ Tudor Prose

Ⅳ Predecessors of Shakespeare

CHAPTER Ⅳ WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Ⅰ Shakespeare and the Renaissance

Ⅱ Early Tragedies and Comedies

Ⅲ Historical Plays

Ⅳ Great Tragedies

Ⅴ The Art of Shakespeare

CHAPTER Ⅴ THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY

Ⅰ Francis Bacon

Ⅱ Ben Jonson and John Donne

Ⅲ Milton and the English Revolution

Ⅳ Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes

CHAPTER Ⅵ THE LATE 17TH AND THE EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Ⅰ John Bunyan and John Dryden

Ⅱ Addison,Steele and Pope

Ⅲ Daniel Defoe

Ⅳ Jonathan Swift

CHAPTER Ⅶ THE MID-18TH CENTURY

Ⅰ Richardson,Smollett and Sterne

Ⅱ Henry Fielding

Ⅲ Johnson and His Circle

Ⅳ Poetry：From Neo-Classic to Romantic

CHAPTER Ⅷ THE ROMANTIC PERIOD（Ⅰ）

Ⅰ Radicalism and Romanticism

Ⅱ Wordsworth and Coleridge

Ⅲ Sir Walter Scott

Ⅳ Jane Austen

CHAPTER Ⅸ THE ROMANTIC PERIOD（Ⅱ）

Ⅰ George Gordon,Lord Byron

Ⅱ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ⅲ John Keats

CHAPTER Ⅹ THE VICTORIAN PERIOD（Ⅰ）

Ⅰ “Cruel Thirties and Hungry Forties”

Ⅱ Charles Dickens

Ⅲ William Makepeace Thackeray

Ⅳ The Bront？s and Mrs.Gaskell

CHAPTER Ⅺ THE VICTORIAN PERIOD（Ⅱ）

Ⅰ Tennyson,Browning and Poetic Retreat

Ⅱ Carlyle,Ruskin and Huxley

Ⅲ George Eliot and Samuel Butler

Ⅳ Morris and Socialist Romance

CHAPTER Ⅻ SOME MODERN WRITERS

Ⅰ Thomas Hardy

Ⅱ John Galsworthy

Ⅲ H.G.Wells

Ⅳ George Bernard Shaw