Chapter One The Medieval Period I. Introduction Ⅱ. Geoffrey Chaucer(ca 1343--1400) Ⅲ. Selected Writing Excerpts from the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales 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 IT 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 Pilgrims Progress (synopsis) Ⅳ. Selected Writings 4.1 Excerpts from Book I of Paradise Lost by John Milton 4.2 "On His Blindness" by John Milton 4.3 An Excerpt from Part I of The Pilgrims Progress 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 Gullivers 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 Foundling (synopsis) Ⅸ. Selected Writings 9.1 "A Modest Proposal"by Jonathan Swift 9.2 "Sir Roger at Church" from The Spectator (July 9,1711) by Joseph Addison 9.3 An Excerpt from An Essay on Man : Epistle 2 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 Pride and Prejudice(synopsis) Ⅷ. Charles Lamb(1775--1834) Ⅸ. George Gordon Byron(1788--1824) Ⅹ. Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792--1822) Ⅵ. John Keats(1795--1821) Ⅶ. Selected Writings 12.1 "London" by William Blake 12.2 "The Tyger" by William Blake 12.3 "The Chimney Sweeper" by William Blake 12.4 "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns 12.5 "Scots Wha Hae" by Robert Burns 12.6 "A Mans 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" 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?。?6) 12.12 "London, 1802" by William Wordsworth 12.13 "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 12.14 "Dream Children; a Reverie" by Charles Lamb 12.15 "She Walks in Beauty" by George Gordon Byron 12.16 "The Isles of Greece" (from Canto I , Don Juan) by George Gordon Byron 12.17 "Ode to the West Wind" by Percy Bysshe Shelley 12.18 "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley 12.19 "To--" by Percy Bysshe Shelley 12.20 "To a Skylark" by Percy Bysshe Shelley 12.21 "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats 12.22 "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats 12.23 "On First Looking into Chapmans Homer" by 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. The Bronti~ Sisters 5.1 Life and Career 5.2 Wuthering Heights (synopsis) 5.3 Jane Eyre (synopsis) Ⅵ. George Eliot (1819--1880) 6.1 Life and Career 6.2 Middlemarch (synopsis) Ⅶ. Thomas Hardy (1840 1928) 7. 1 Life and Career 7.2 Tess of the DUrbervilles (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"by Alfred Tennyson 9.2 "Break, Break, Break"by Alfred Tennyson 9.3 "My Last Duchess"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"by W. B. Yeats 11.3 "Sailing to Byzantium" by W. B. Yeats 11.4 "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats 11.5 "My Wood"by E. M. Forster 11.6 "Araby"by James Joyce 11.7 "Dorothy Wordsworth" 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 "Whos Who" by W. H. Auden 11.13 "Their Lonely Betters" by W. H. Auden Bibliography