Chapter One The Medieval Period

1．Introduction

1.1 Historical Background

1.2 Literature in the Middle Ages

2．Geoffrey Chaucer(ca. 1343-1400)

3．Selected Writings

3.1 Beowulf(an excerpt)

3.2 The Twa Corbies(a popular ballad)

3.3 The General Prologue(excerpts from The Canterbury Tales)

Chapter Two The Elizabethan Age

1．Introduction

1.1 The Renaissance

1.2 The Renaissance in England

1.3 Literature of the Renaissance

2．Edmund Spenser(1552-1599)

3．Francis Bacon(1561-1626)

4．Christopher Marlowe(1564-1593)

4.1 Life and Career

4.2 Dr Faustus(synopsis)

5．William Shakespeare(1564-1616)

5.1 Life and Career

5.2 Major Works

5.2.1 Hamlet(synopsis)

5.2.2 Macbeth(synopsis)

5.2.3 TheMerchant of Venice(synopsis)

6．John Donne(1572-1631)

7．Selected Writings

7.1 The Faerie Queene by Spenser(two excerpts from Canto Ⅰ,Book Ⅰ)

7.2 Dr Faustus by Marlowe(an excerpt from Scene Ⅰ,Act Ⅰ)

7.3 The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare（an excerpt from ACT Ⅳ)

7.4 Hamlet by Shakespeare(An Excerpt from Act Ⅲ）

7.5 "Sonnet 18"by Shakespeare

7.6 "Sonnet 29"by Shakespeare

7.7 "The Flea"by Donne

7.8 "The Sun Rising"by Donne

7.9 "The Canonization"by Donne

7.10 "Death Be Not Proud"by Donne

7.11 "Of Studies"by Bacon

7.12 "Of Marriage and Single Life"by Bacon

Chapter Three The Restoration

1．Introduction

1.1 The Restoration

1.2 Literary Characteristics

2．John Mihon(1608-1674)

3．John Bunyan(1628-1688)

3.1 Life and Career

3.2 The Pilgrim's Progress(synopsis)

4．John Dryden(1631-1700)

5．Selected Writings

5.1 ParadiseLost(Excerpts from Book Ⅰ)by Milton

5.2 "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent"by Milton

5.3 "Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint"by Milton

5.4 The Pilgrim's Progress by Bunyan(An Excerpt from Part Ⅰ)

5.5 "To the Memory of Mr. Oldham"by Dryden

5.6 "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day"by Dryden

Chapter Four The Enlightenment Period

1．Introduction

1.1 Enlightenment Ideas

1.2 Literature during the Enlightenment Period

2．Daniel Defoe(1660-1731)

2.1 Life and Career

2.2 Robinson Crusoe(synopsis)

3．Jonathan Swift(1667-1745)

3.1 Life and Career

3.2 Gulliver's Travels(synopsis)

4．Joseph Addison(1672-1719)

5．Alexander Pope(1688-1744)

6．Samuel Richardson(1689-1761)

6.1 Life and Career

6.2 Clarissa:or The History of a Young Lady(synopsis)

7．Henry Fielding(1707-1754)

7.1 Life and Career

7.2 Tom Jones(synopsis)

8．Samuel Johnson(1709-1784)

9．Selected Writings

9.1 "A Modest Proposal"by Swift

9.2 "Sir Roger at Church"from The Spectator(July 9,1711)by Addison

9.3 An Essay on Man:Epistle Ⅱ(an excerpt)by Alexander Pope

9.4 "To the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield"by Johnson

Chapter Five The Romantic Period

1．Introduction

1.1 Historical Background

1.2 Romanticism

1.3 English Romanticism

2．William Blake(1757-1827)

3．Robert Burns(1759-1796)

4．William Wordsworth(1770-1850)

5．Walter Scott(1771-1832)

5.1 Life and Career

5.2 Ivanhoe(synopsis)

6．Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834)

7．Jane Austen(1775-1817)

7.1 Life and Career

7.2 Pride and Prejudice(synopsis)

8．Charles Lamb(1775-1834)

9．George Gordon Byron(1788-1824)

10．Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822)

11．John Keats(1795-1821)

12．Selected Writings

12.1 "London"by Blake

12.2 "The Tyger"by Blake

12.3 "The Chimney Sweeper"by Blake

12.4 "A Red,Red Rose"by Burns

12.5 "Auld Lang Syne"by Burns

12.6 "Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn"by Burns

12.7 "For a'that and a'that"by Burns

12.8 "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways"by Wordsworth

12.9 "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud"by Wordsworth

12.10 "The Solitary Reaper"by Wordsworth

12.11 "To the Cuckoo"by Wordsworth

12.12 "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge,September 3,1802"by Wordsworth

12.13 "London,1802"by Wordsworth

12.14 "Kubla Khan"by Coleridge

12.15 "Dream Children;a Reverie"by Lamb

12.16 "She Walks in Beauty"by Byron

12.17 "The Isles of Greece"(from Canto Ⅲ,Don Juan)by Byron

12.18 "Ode to the West Wind"by Shelley

12.19 "Ozymandias"by Shelley

12.20 "To—"by Shelley

12.21 "To a Skylark"by Shelley

12.22 "Ode to a Nightingale"by Keats

12.23 "Ode on a Grecian Urn"by Keats

12.24 "On first Looking into Chapman's Homer"by Keats

Chapter Six The Victorian Age

1．Introduction

1.1 Historical Background

1.2 Literary Characteristics

2．Alfred Lord Tennyson(1809-1892)

3．Robert Browning(1812-1889)and Elizabeth Browning(1806-1861)

4．Charles Dickens(1812-1870)

4.1 Life and Career

4.2 David Copperfield(synopsis)

5．The Bront？ Sisters

5.1 Literary Career

5.2 Maior Works

5.2.1 Wuthering Heights(synopsis)

5.2.2 Jane Eyre（synopsis）

6．George Eliot(1819-1880)

6.1 Life and Career

6.2 Middlemarch(synopsis)

7．Thomas Hardy(1840-1928)

7.1 Life and Career

7.2 Tess of the D'Urbervilles(synopsis)

8．George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)

8.1 Life and Career

8.2 Mrs.Warren's Profession(synopsis)

9．Selected Writings

9.1 "Ulysses"by Tennyson

9.2 "Break,Break,Break"by Tennyson

9.3 "My Last Duchess"by Robert Browning

9.4 "Home Thoughts,from the Sea"by Robert Browning

9.5 "How Do I Love Thee?Let me Count the Ways."by Elizabeth Browning

9.6 "Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell"by Charlotte Bronte

Chapter Seven The Twentieth Century

1．Introduction

1.1 Historical Background

1.2 Modernism

1.3 Literary Characteristics

2．Joseph Conrad(1857-1924)

2.1 Life and Career

2.2 Heart of Darkness(synopsis)

3．William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)

4．E.M. Forster(1879-1970)

4.1 Life and Career

4.2 A Passage to India(synopsis)

5．James Joyce(1882-1941)

5.1 Life and Career

5.2 Ulysses(synopsis)

6．Virginia Woolf(1882-1941)

6.1 Life and Career

6.2 To the Lighthouse(synopsis)

7．D.H. Lawrence(1885-1930)

7.1 Life and Career

7.2 Sons and Lovers(synopsis)

8．T.S.Eliot(1888-1965)

9．Samuel Beckett(1906-1989)

10．Wystan Hugh Auden(1907-1973)

11．William Golding(1911-1993)

11.1 Life and Career

11.2 Lord of the Flies(synopsis)

12．Doris Lessing(1919-2013)

12.1 Life and career

12.2 The Golden Notebook(synopsis)

13．Sir V.S.Naipaul(1932- )

13.1 Life and Career

13.2 A House for Mr.Biswas(synopsis)

14．Selected Writings

14.1 "Down by the Salley Gardens"by Yeats

14.2 "Leda and the Swan"by Yeats

14.3 "Sailing to Byzantium"by Yeats

14.4 "The Second Coming"by Yeats

14.5 "My Wood"by Forster

14.6 "Araby"by Joyce

14.7 "Dorothy Wordsworth"by Woolf

14.8 "The Mark on the Wall"by Woolf

14.9 "Tickets,Please"by Lawrence

14.10 "Journey of the Magi"by Eliot

14.11 "Sweeney among the Nightingales"by Eliot

14.12 Waiting for Godot by Beckett(An Excerpt from Act Ⅰ)

14.13 "Who's Who"by Auden

14.14 "Their Lonely Betters"by Auden

14.15 "In Memory of W.B. Yeats"by Auden

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