Part I The Middle Ages
Unit1 Old English Literature3
1.1 Overview 3
1.2 Beowulf4
Unit 2 Middle English Literature8
2.1 Overview8
2.2 Geoffrey Chaucer 9
Part Ⅱ English Renaissance
Unit 3 Renaissance Poetry 19
3.1 Overview 19
3.2 Elizabethan Poets 19
3.3 Metaphysical Poets25
3.4 John Miton28
Unit4 Elizabethan Drama36
4.1 Overview36
4.2 The University Wits36
4.3 William Shakespeare37
Part Ⅲ The Neoclassical Age
Unit 5 Neoclassical Poetry57
5.1 Overview 57
5.2 Alexander Pope57
Unit 6 The 18th-Century Novels63
6.1 Overview63
6.2 Daniel Defoe65
6.3 Samuel Richardson83
6.4 Henry Fielding89
Part IV The Romantic Age
Unit 7 Pre-Romantic and Early Romantic Poetry..99
7.1 Overview 99
7.2 William Blake99
7.3 Robert Bums104
7.4 William Wordsworth108
7.5 Samuel Taylor Coleridge112
Unit 8 Later Romantic Poetry117
8.1 Overview 117
8.2 George Gordon Byron118
8.3 Perey Bysshe Shelley 125
8.4 John Keats 133
Part V The Victorian Age
Unit 9 Female Novelists of the 19th Century..143
9.1 Overview143
9.2 Jane Austen143
9.3 Charlotte Bronte151
9.4 George Eliot 163
Unit 10 Male Novelists of the 19th Century173
10.1 Overview 173
10.2 Charles Dickens 173
10.3 William Makepeace Thackeray184
10.4 Thomas Hardy 193
Unit 11 Victorian Poetry199
11.1 Overview199
11.2 Alfred Tennyson 200
11.3 Robert Browning203
Unit 12 Victorian Drama208
12.1 Overview208
12.2 Oscar Wilde 208
12.3 George Bemard Shaw227
Part VI Modern Literature
Unit 13 Modernist Poetry241
13.1 Overview 241
13.2 William Butler Yeats241
13.3 T.S.Eliot246
Unit 14 Modernist Fiction251
14.1 Overview 251
14.2 Virginia Woolf 252
14.3 James Joyee 257
Bibliography267