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1 Old English Literature 1

Beowulf 1

'The Seafarer'and'The Wanderer' 5

Battle Poems and'The Dream of the Rood' 7

Old English Language 9

2 Middle English Literature 11

From the Norman Conquest to Chaucer 11

Julian of Norwich,Margery Kempe,Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 13

Geoffrey Chaucer,William Dunbar,Robert Henryson 17

William Langland,Medieval Drama,Thomas Malory 21

3 Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose 26

Sir Thomas Wy 26

Sixteenth-Century Prose and the Reformation 28

The Sonnet:Sir Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare 32

Edmund Spenser 37

4 Shakespeare 41

Shakespeare in Context 41

Shakespeare's Comedies and Histories 43

Shakespeare's Tragedies 47

Shakespeare's Late Plays 52

5 Renaissance and Restoration Drama 55

Renaissance Drama and Christopher Marlowe 55

Elizabethan and Jacobean Revenge Tragedy 60

Ben Jonson and the Masque 62

Restoration Drama 65

6 Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose 69

John Donne 69

From Ben Jonson to John Bunyan and Andrew Marvell 73

John Milton 81

John Dryden 85

7 The Eighteenth Century 88

Alexander Pope 88

The Augustan Age 93

Edward Gibbon,Samuel Johnson 97

Sensibility 99

8 The Novel:The First Hundred Years 102

Daniel Defoe 102

Aphra Behn,Samuel Richardson,Henry Fielding,Laurence Sterne,Tobias Smollett 105

From Eliza Haywood to Mary Shelley 110

Walter Scott and Jane Austen 112

9 The Romantic Period 115

The Age of Revolution 115

William Blake,William Wordsworth,Samuel Taylor Coleridge 117

Lord Byron,Percy Bysshe Shelley,John Keats 123

Radical Voices 126

10 Victorian Literature,1837-1857 128

Charles Dickens 128

Charlotte and Emily Bront？ 131

William Makepeace Thackeray,Elizabeth Gaskell 135

Alfred Lord Tennyson,Robert Browning,Elizabeth Barrett Browning 138

11 Victorian Literature,1857-1876 143

Victorian Thinkers 143

George Eliot 146

Wilkie Collins and the Sensation Novel 150

Anthony Trollope,Christina Rossetti 153

12 Victorian Literature,1876-1901 157

Thomas Hardy 157

George Gissing,George Moore,Samuel Butler,Henry James,Robert Louis Stevenson 161

Rudyard Kipling 165

George Bernard Shaw,Oscar Wilde,Late Victorian Poetry 167

13 The Twentieth Century:The Early Years 170

Joseph Conrad 170

Arnold Bennett,H.G.Wells,E.M.Forster,Katherine Mansfield 174

D.H.Lawrence 177

Georgian Poetry,War Poetry,W.B.Yeats 180

14 The Twentieth Century:Between the Wars 186

T.S.Eliot 186

James Joyce 190

Virginia Woolf 195

The 1930s 198

15 The Twentieth Century:The Second World War to the End of the Millennium 202

Wartime and Post-War Britain 202

Drama 205

Novels 209

Poetry 213

16 Postscript 217

The Twenty-First Century 217

Periods of English Literature and Language 221

Chronology 222

Further Reading 253