A New Anthology of English Literature.Volume I

Chapter One The Anglo-Saxon period(450-1066)
1.Historical background
2.Northumbrian School and Wessex literature
3.Anglo-Saxon poetry
Beowulf

Chapter Two The Norman Period(1066-1350)
1.Historical backgroung
2.Middle English
3.Religious Literature
4.Romance and the in fluence of French of French literature Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Chapter Three The age of Chaucer(1350-1400)
Historical background
Geoffrey Chaucer(ca.1340?-1400)
The Canterbury Tales

Chapter Four The Fifteenth Century(1400-1550)
1.Historical background
2.Popular ballads
3.Sir Thomas Malory(ca.1405-1471)
4.Early English plays
The Popular Ballads
The Three Ravens
Sir Patrick Spens
Robin Hood and the Three Squires

Chapter Five The English Renaissance(1550-1642)
1.Historical background
2.The enclosure movement
3.Humanism
Edmund Spenser(1522?-1599)
The Faerie Queene
4.the flourishing of drama
Christopher Marlowe(1564-1593)
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
William Shakespeare(1564-1593)
Sonnets
Sonnets 18
Sonnets 19
Sonnets 66
Romeo and Juliet
The Merchant of Venice
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
Chapter Six The Seventeenth Century(1603-1688)
Chapter Seven The Eighteenth Century(1688-1798)