Unit 1 Early and Medieval English Literature
Introduction
Geoffrey Chaucerc.1340—c.1400
The Canterbury Tales
Supplementary Readings1
Unit2 The English Renaissance1
Introduction
William Shakespeare1564—1616
The Merchant of Venice
Hamlet,Prince of Denmark
Supplementary Readings2
Unit3 The English Renaissance2
Introduction
Francis Bacon1561—1626
Of Studies
Ben Jonson1572—1637
Song:To Celia
Supplementary Readings3
Unit4 The Early 17th Century
Introduction
John Milton1608—1674
Paradise Lost
Supplementary Readings4
Unit5 The Restoration and the 18th Century
Introduction
Jonathan Swift1667—1745
A Modest Proposal
Supplementary Readings5
Unit6 Romantic Poets
Introduction
William Wordsworth1770—1850
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772—1834
The Rime of the Ancient Mariher
John Keats1795—1821
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Supplementary Readings6
Unit7rhe Novel:1720—1880
Introduction
SeminarEssay Topics
Unit8 The Vietorian Age
Introduction
Robert Browning1812—1889
My Last Duchess
Supplementary Readings7
Unit 9 Into the 20th Century
Introduction
Wilfred Owen
Futility
Supplementary Readings8
Unit 10 The Short Story
Introduction
Katherine Mansfield1888—1923
Sixpence
James Joyce
Eveline
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Aeknowledgements