目錄:1 0ld English Literature<br>Beowulf<br>‘The Seafarer’and‘The Wanderer’<br>Battle Poems and‘The Dream of tlle Rood’<br>Old English Language<br>2 Middle English Literature<br>From the Norman Conquest to Chaucer<br>Julian of Norwich,Margery Kempe,Sir Gawain and<br>the Green Knight<br>Geoffrey Chaucer'William Dunbar,Robert Henryson<br>WiUiam Langland,Medieval Drama,Thomas Malory<br>3 Sixteenth—Century Poetry and Prose<br>Sir Thomas Wyatt<br>Sixteenth—Century Prose and the Reformation<br>The Sonnet:Sir Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare<br>Edmund Spenser<br>4 Shakespeare<br>Shakespeare in Context<br>Shakespeare,S Comedies and Histories<br>Shakespeare,S Tragedies<br>Shakespeare's Late Plays<br>5 Renaissance and Restoration Drama<br>Renaissance Drama and Christopher Marlowe<br>Elizabethan and Jacobean Revenge Tragedy<br>Ben Jonson and the Masque<br>Restoration Drama<br>6 Seventeenth—Century Poetry and Prose<br>John Donne<br>From Ben Jonson tO John Bunyan and Andrew Marvell<br>John Milton<br>John Dryden<br>7 The Eighteenth Century<br>Mexander Pope<br>The Augustan Age<br>Edward Gibbon,Samuet Johnson<br>Sensibility<br>8 The Novel:The First Hundred Years<br>Daniel Defoe<br>Aphra Behn,Samuel Richardson,Henry Fielding,Laurence Sterne,Tobias Smollett<br>From Eliza Haywood tO Mary Shelley<br>Wallter Scott and Jane Austen<br>9 The Romantic Period<br>The Age of Revolution<br>William Blake,William Wordsworth,Samuel Taylor<br>Coleridge<br>Lord Byron,Percy Bysshe Shelley,John Keats<br>Radical vnices<br>10 Victorian Literature,1837—1857<br>C:harles Dickens<br>Charlotte and Emily BrontE<br>William Makepeace Thackeray,Elizabeth Gaskell<br>Mfred Lord Tennyson,Robert Brownin9,Elizabeth<br>Barrett Browning<br>11 Victorian Literature,1 857-1 876<br>Victorian Thinkers<br>George Eliot<br>Wlkie Collins and出e Sensation Novel<br>Anthony Trollope,Christina Rossetti<br>12 Victorian Literature,1876—1901<br>Thomas Hardv<br>George Gissin9,George Moore,Samuel Butler,Henry<br>James.Robert Louis Stevenson<br>Rudyard Kipling<br>George Bernard Shaw,Oscar Wilde,Late Victorian Poetry<br>13 The Twentieth Century:The Early Years<br>Joseph Conrad<br>Arnold Bennett,H.G.Wells,E.M.Forster,Katherine Mansfield<br>D.H.Lawrence<br>Georgian Poetry,War Poetry,W B.Yeats<br>14 The Twentieth Century:Between the Wars<br>T S.Eliot<br>James Joyce<br>Virginia Woolf<br>The l930s<br>15 The Twentieth Century:The Second World War to the End<br>of the Millennium<br>Wartime and Post一War Britain<br>Drama<br>Novels<br>Poetry<br>16 Postscript<br>The Twenty—First Century<br>Periods ofEnglish Literature and Language<br>Chronology<br>Further Reading