Chapter 1 The Old and Medieval Period

1.1 An Introduction

1.2 Geoffrey Chaucer

1.3 Folk Ballads

Chapter 2 The Renaissance Period

2.1 An Introduction

2.2 Edmund Spenser

2.3 Christopher Marlowe

2.4 Walter Raleigh

2.5 William Shakespeare

2.6 Francis Bacon

2.7 John Donne

2.8 George Herbert

2.9 Andrew Marvell

2.10 Ben Jonson

2.11 Robert Herrick

2.12 John Milton

Chapter 3 The Neoclassical Period

3.1An Introduction

3.2 John Dryden

3.3 John Bunyan

3.4 Jonathan Swift

3.5 Alexander Pope

3.6 Daniel Defoe

3.7 Henry Fielding

3.8 Samuel Johnson

3.9 Thomas Gray

3.10 Robert Burns

3.11 William Blake

3.12 Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Chapter 4 The Romantic Period

4.1 An Introduction

4.2 William Wordsworth

4.3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

4.4 George Gordon Byron

4.5 Percy Bysshe Shelley

4.6 John Keats

4.7 Jane Austen

Chapter 5 The Victorian Period

5.1 An Introduction

5.2 Charles Dickens

5.3 Alfred Tennyson

5.4 Robert Browning

5.5 Elizabeth Barrett Browning

5.6 Charlotte Brontё

5.7 Emily Brontё

5.8 Matthew Arnold

5.9 Gerard Manley Hopkins

5.10 Thomas Hardy

Chapter 6 The Modern Period

6.1 An Introduction

6.2 George Bernard Shaw

6.3 Alfred Edward Housman

6.4 John Galsworthy

6.5 William Butler Yeats

6.6 T.S.Eliot

6.7 James Joyce

6.8 D.H.Lawrence

6.9 William Golding

6.10 Samuel Beckett

6.11 Dylan Thomas

6.12 Ted Hughes

6.13 Seamus Heaney

Appendix Ⅰ Sample Test Paper

Key（参考答案）

Appendix Ⅱ Acknowledgment