ChapterⅠEnglishLiteratureoftheAnglo-SaxonPeriod(MaoMinzhu) 1
1．TheHistoricalBackground 1
2．Beowulf 2
3．ReligiousPoetry:CaedmonandCynewulf 6
4．Anglo-SaxonProse:BedeandAlfred 7
ChapterⅡEnglishLiteratureoftheLateMiddleAges(MaoMinzhu) 7
SectionⅠEnglishLiteraturefromtheMid-11thtotheMid-14thCentury 11
1．TheBackground:PoliticalandSocial 11
2．FolkLiteratureandReligiousLiteraturefromtheMid-11thtotheMid-14thCentury 12
3．EarlyAlliterativeandMetricalRomancesinthe12th,13th,andEarly14thCenturies 14
1．TheBackground:PoliticalandSocial 17
SectionⅡEnglishLiteratureoftheSecondHalfofthe14thCentury 17
2．JohnWycliffe,JohnGower,andWilliamLangland 18
3．GeoffreyChaucer 23
SectionⅢEnglishLiteratureofthe15thCentury 31
1．TheBackground:PoliticalandSocial 31
2．EnglishandScottishPopularBallads:“RobinHoodBallads”;“BorderBallads”andOthers 33
3．EarlyEnglishDrama:FolkDrama;theMysteryPlays;theMiraclePlays;theMoralityPlays 37
4．EnglishProseofthe15thCentury:SirThomasMaloryandHisLeMorted Arthur 39
ChapterⅢEnglishLiteratureoftheRenaissance(SongWenlin) 39
SectionⅠTheHistoricalBackground:Economic,Political,andCultural 42
1．TheRenaissanceinEurope 42
2．StagesandTrendsofEnglishLiteratureoftheRenaissance 44
1．“TheOxfordReformers”andThomasMore 45
SectionⅡEnglishLiteratureoftheEarly16thCentury 45
2．CourtPoetry:Skelton;WyattandSurrey 49
3．MoralityPlaysandInterludesofthe16thCentury:DavidLyndsayandJohnHeywood 53
SectionⅢEnglishLiteratureoftheSecondHalfofthe16thCentury 55
1．CourtPoetry:SidneyandSpenser 55
2．ProseFiction:Lyly,Nashe,andDeloney 59
3．Pre-ShakespeareanDrama:EnglishDramaunderClassicalInfluence;“theUniversityWits”+—Lyly,Peele,Lodge,Nashe,Greene,Kyd,andMarlowe;theElizabethanTheatre 64
SectionⅣWilliamShakespeare 73
1．Shakespeare sLifeandLiteraryCareer 73
2．Shakespeare sPoemsandSonnets 76
3．TheFirstPeriodofShakespeare sDramaticCareer(1588-90—1594-5):EarlyExperimentalComedies 78
(Love sLabour sLost,TheComedyofErrors,andTheTwoGentlemenofVerona);EarlyHistoryPlays(HenryⅥ,PartsⅠ,Ⅱ, ⅢandRichardⅢ) 78
FourGreatComedies(TheMerchantofVenice,MuchAdoAboutNothing,AsYouLikeIt,andTwelfthNight) 80
4．TheSecondPeriodofShakespeare sDramaticCareer(1594-5—1601):LaterHistoryPlays(KingJohn,RichardⅡ,thetwopartsofHenryⅣ,andHenryⅤ); 80
aFantasy(AMidsummerNight sDream)andTwoFarces(TheTamingoftheShrewandTheMerryWivesofWindsor);TwoEarlyTragedies(RomeoandJulietandJuliusCaesar); 80
5．TheThirdPeriodofShakespeare sDramaticCareer(1601—1609):FourGreatTragedies(Hamlet,Othello,KingLear,andMacbeth) 92
andOtherTragedies(AntonyandCleopatra,Coriolanus,andTimonofAthens);EarlierTragi-Comedies(TroilusandCressida,All sWellThatEndsWell,andMeasureforMeasure) 92
6．TheLastPeriodofShakespeare sDramaticCareer(1609—1612-3):Pericles,Cymbeline,TheWinter sTale,TheTempest,andHenryⅧ 102
7．GeneralCommentsonShakespeare 104
SectionⅤEnglishLiteratureoftheFirstQuarterofthe17thCentury 116
1．TheDramaofShakespeare sContemporaries:BenJonson,Chapman,Dekker,ThomasHeywood,BeaumontandFletcher 116
2．TheDeclineofDramainEarly17th-CenturyEnglanduptotheClosingoftheTheatresinLondonin1642:Marston,Tourneur,Webster,Ford,Middleton,Massinger,andShirley 124
3．FrancisBacon 133
4．TheKingJamesBibleandOtherProseintheEarly17thCentury 137
5．EnglishNon-DramaticPoetryintheFirstThirtyYearsofthe17thCentury:theSpenserians,JohnDonne,andBenJonson 141
SectionⅠTheHistoricalBackground:PoliticalandIdeological 148
1．ThePoliticalBackgroundfromtheEveoftheEnglishBourgeoisRevolutiontotheEndoftheRestoration(1625—1688) 148
ChapterⅣEnglishLiteratureduringtheEnglishBourgeoisRevolutionandtheRestoration(SongWenlin) 148
2．TheIdeologicalBackgroundofEnglishLiteratureinthe17thCentury 151
SectionⅡMinorCurrentsofEnglishLiteraturefrom1625to1660 154
1．MinorEnglishPoetsandProseWritersofthePeriod 154
2．ThePamphletLiteratureoftheLevellersandtheDiggers:JohnLilburneandGerrardWinstanley 160
SectionⅢJohnMilton 165
1．Milton sLifeandLiteraryCareer 165
2．Milton sEarlyWorks 168
3．TheMiddlePeriodofMilton sLiteraryCareer:HisProseandHisSonnets 170
4．TheLastPeriodofMilton sLiteraryCareer:ParadiseLost,ParadiseRegained,andSamsonAgonistes 177
5．Summary 187
1．JohnBunyan 188
SectionⅣEnglishLiteratureoftheRestoration 188
2．JohnDryden 192
3．TheEnglishDramaoftheRestoration 197
4．MinorEnglishPoetryandProseoftheRestoration 201
ChapterⅤEighteenthCenturyEnglishLiterature(SongWenlin) 205
SectionⅠTheHistoricalBackground:PoliticalandIdeological 205
1．PoliticalBackgroundfromtheRevolutionof1688totheEndofthe18thCentury 205
2．TheEnlightenmentinEnglandandItsEffectuponEnglishLiteratureofthe18thCentury 207
SectionⅡEnglishLiteratureoftheEarly18thCentury 213
1．Neo-ClassicisminEnglishLiteratureintheEarly18thCentury:AlexanderPope 213
2．PeriodicalLiteratureinEarly18th-CenturyEngland:AddisonandSteele 218
3．DanielDefoe 223
4．JonathanSwift 231
1．Richardson 243
SectionⅢEnglishProseFictionintheMiddleandLastDecadesofthe18thCentury 243
2．Fielding 248
3．Smollett 263
4．Sentimentalism:SterneandGoldsmith 270
5．TheGothicRomancesandOtherWorksofFictionneartheEndofthe18thCentury 286
SectionⅣEnglishDramainthe18thCentury 291
1．EnglishDramaintheEarlyandMiddleDecadesofthe18thCentury 291
2．RichardBrinsleySheridan 298
SectionⅤNeo-ClassicismandPre-RomanticisminEnglishPoetryandProseintheMiddleandLastDecadesofthe18thCentury 305
1．SamuelJohnson;JamesBoswell;Gibbon;Burke 305
2．EnglishPoetryintheMiddleandLaterDecadesofthe18thCentury:Crabbe 320
3．RobertBurns 339
4．WilliamBlake 350
1．TheHistoricalBackground:Economic,Political,andIdeological 362
ChapterⅥEnglishLiteratureoftheEarly19thCentury(MaoMinzhu) 362
SectionⅠTheHistoricalBackgroundandLiteraryTrendsinEarly19th-CenturyEngland 362
2．TheLiteraryTrends:theRomanticMovementinEnglishLiterature;thePoetryofWordsworth,Coleridge,Byron,Shelley,andKeats;theProseFictionofWalterScottandJaneAusten;andtheEssayistsofthePeriod 363
SectionⅡRomanticPoetryinEarly19th-CenturyEngland 364
1．WilliamWordsworth 365
2．SamuelTaylorColeridge 374
3．GeorgeGordonByron 385
4．PercyByssheShelley 397
5．JohnKeats 410
SectionⅢEnglishProseintheEarly19thCentury 419
1．ProseFiction:WalterScottandJaneAusten 419
2．WilliamCobbett 428
3．EssayistsintheEarly19thCentury:WilliamHazlitt,CharlesLamb,andThomasDeQuincey 430