Course book of English literature

Chapter One The Medieval Period
Ⅰ.Introduction
Ⅱ.Geoffrey Chaucer(ca1343-1400)
Ⅲ.Selected Writings
Chapter Two The Elizabethan Age
Ⅰ.Introduction
1.1 Renaissance
1.2 Renaissance in England
Ⅱ.Francis Bacon(1561-1626)
Ⅲ.William Shakespeare(1564-1616)
3.1 Life and Career
3.2 Major Works
Ⅳ.John Donne(1572-1631)
Ⅴ.Selected Writings
5.1 An Excerpt from ACT IV of The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
5.2 An Excerpt from Act Ⅲ of Hamlet by William Shakespeare
5.3 “Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare
5.4 “Sonnet 29” by William Shakespeare
5.5 “The Flea” by John Donne
5.6 “The Sun Rising” by John Donne
5.7 “The Canonization” by John Donne
5.8 “Death Be Not Proud” by John Donne
5.9 “Of Studies” by Francis Bacon
5.10 “Of Marriage and Single Life” by Francis Bacon
Chapter Three The Restoration
Ⅰ.Introduction
1.1 The Restoration
1.2 Literary Characteristics
Ⅱ.John Milton(1608-1674)
Ⅲ.John Bunyan(1628-1688)
3.1 Life and Career
3.2 The Pilgrim's Progress(synopsis)
Ⅳ.Selected Writings
4.1 Excerpts from BookⅠof Paradise Lost by John Milton
4.2 “On His Blindness” by John Milton
4.3 An Excerpt from PartⅠof The Pilgrim's Progress^1 by John Bunyan
Chapter Four The Enlightenment Period
Ⅰ.Introduction
1.1 Enlightenment Ideas
1.2 British Literature during the Enlightenment Period
Ⅱ.Daniel Defoe(1660-1731)
2.1 Life and Career
2.2 Robinson Crusoe(synopsis)
Ⅲ.Jonathan Swift(1667-1745)
3.1 Life and Career
3.2 Gulliver's Travels(synopsis)
Ⅳ.Joseph Addison(1672-1719)
Ⅴ.Alexander Pope(1688-1744)
Ⅵ.Samuel Richardson(1689-1761)
6.1 Life and Career
6.2 Clarissa(synopsis)
Ⅶ.Samuel Johnson(1709-1784)
Ⅷ.Henry Fielding(1707-1754)
8.1 Life and Career
8.2 The History of Tom Jones,a Founding(synopsis)
Ⅸ.Selected Writings
9.1 “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift
9.2 “Sir Roger^1at Church” from The Spectator(July 9,1711)by Joseph Addison
9.3 An Excerpt from An Essay on Man：Epistle Ⅱ^1 by Alexander Pope
9.4 “To the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield” by Samuel Johnson
Chapter Five The Romantic Period
Ⅰ.Introduction
1.1 Historical Background
1.2 Romanticism
1.3 British Romanticism
Ⅱ.William Blake(1757-1827)
Ⅲ.Robert Burns(1759-1796)
Ⅳ.William Wordsworth(1770-1850)
Ⅴ.Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834)
Ⅵ.Walter Scott(1771-1832)
6.1 Life and Career
6.2 Ivanhoe(synopsis)
Ⅶ.Jane Austen(1775-1817)
7.1 Life and Career
7.2 Prid eand Prejudice(synopsis)
Ⅷ.Charles Lamb(1775-1834)
Ⅸ.George Gordon Byron(1788-1824)
Ⅹ.Percy Bys she Shelley(1792-1822)
Ⅺ.John Keats(1795-1821)
Ⅻ.Selected Writings
12.1 “London” by William Blake
12.2 “The Tyger” by William Blake
12.3 “The Chimney Sweeper”^1by William Blake
12.4 “A Red,Red Rose” by Robert Burns
12.5 “Scots Wha Hae^1” by Robert Burns
12.6 “A Man's a Man for A' That” by Robert Burns
12.7 “She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways” by William Wordsworth
12.8 “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud”^1 by William Wordsworth
12.9 “The Solitary Reaper”by William Wordsworth
12.10 “To the Cuckoo”by William Wordsworth
12.11 “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge,September 3,1802”by William Wordsworth
12.12 “London,1802”^1by William Wordsworth
12.13 “Kubl a Khan” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
12.14 “Dream Children；a Reverie” by Charles Lamb
12.15 “She Walks in Beauty”^1by George Gordon Byron
12.16 “The Isles of Greece”(from Canto Ⅲ,Don Juan)by George Gordon Byron
12.17 “Ode to the West Wind”^1 by Percy Bysshe Shelley
12.18 “Ozymandias^1”by Percy Bysshe Shelley
12.19 “To-”by Percy Bysshe Shelley
12.20 “Toa Skylark” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
12.21 “Ode to a Nightingale”by John Keats
12.22 “Ode on a Grecian Urn^1”by John Keats
12.23 “On First Looking into Chapman's Homer”^1by John Keats
Chapter Six The Victorian Age
Ⅰ.Introduction
1.1 Historical Background
1.2 Literary Characteristics
Ⅱ.Alfred Lord Tennyson(1809-1892)
Ⅲ.Robert Browning(1812-1889)
Ⅳ.Charles Dickens(1812-1870)
4.1 Life and Career
4.2 Great Expectations(synopsis)
Ⅴ.TheBrontё Sisters
5.1 Life and Career
5.2 Wuthering Heights(synopsis)
5.3 Jane Eyre(synopsis)
Ⅵ.George Eliot(1819-1880)
6.1 LifeandCareer
6.2 Middlemarch(synopsis)
Ⅶ.Thomas Hardy(1840-1928)
7.1 Life and Career
7.2 Tess of the D'Urbervilles(synopsis)
Ⅷ.George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)
8.1 Life and Career
8.2 Mrs.Warren's Profession(synopsis)
Ⅸ.Selected Writings
9.1 “Ulysses^1”by Alfred Tennyson
9.2 “Break,Break,Break”by Alfred Tennyson
9.3 “My Last Duchess”^1 by Robert Browning
9.4 “Home Thoughts,from the Sea”by Robert Browning
9.5 An Excerpt from Chapter 3 of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
9.6 “Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell”by Charlotte Bront
Chapter Seven The Twentieth Century
Ⅰ.Modernism
1.1 Social Background
1.2 Modernism
1.3 Literary Characteristics
Ⅱ.Joseph Conrad(1857-1924)
2.1 Life and Career
2.2 Heart of Darkness(synopsis)
Ⅲ.William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)
Ⅳ.E.M.Forster(1879-1970)
4.1 Life and Career
4.2 A Passage to India(synopsis)
Ⅴ.James Joyce(1882-1941)
5.1 Life and Career
5.2 Ulysses(synopsis)
Ⅵ.Virginia Woolf(1882-1941)
6.1 Life and Career
6.2 To the Lighthouse(synopsis)
Ⅶ.D.H.Lawrence(1885-1930)
7.1 Life and Career
7.2 Sons and Lovers(synopsis)
Ⅷ.T.S.Eliot(1888-1965)
Ⅸ.Samuel Barclay Beckett(1906-1989)
Ⅹ.Wystan Hugh Auden(1907-1973)
Ⅺ.Selected Writings
11.1 “Down by the Salley Gardens”by W.B.Yeats
11.2 “Leda and the Swan^1”by W.B.Yeats
11.3 “Sailing to Byzantium^1”by W.B.Yeats
11.4 “The Second Coming”^1 by W.B.Yeats
11.5 “My Wood”by E.M.Forster
11.6 “Araby^1”by James Joyce
11.7 “Dorothy Wordsworth^1”by Virginia Woolf
11.8 “The Mark on the Wall”by Virginia Woolf
11.9 “Tickets,Please”by D.H.Lawrence
11.10 “The Hollow Men”by T.S.Eliot
11.11 An Excerpt from Act One of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
11.12 “Who's Who”by W.H.Auden
11.13 “Their Lonely Betters”by W.H.Auden
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