Chapter Ⅷ The Age of Romanticism (1798-1832) 1
1.Historical background 1
2.Intellectual background 2
3.Characteristic features of the romantic movement 3
Willam Wordsworth (1770-1850) 5
Preface to Lyrual Ballads 6
Com posed upom Westermtnster Bridge 11
The Soluary Reaper 12
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 14
Lines Composed a Feiu Miles aboue Tiutern Abbey 15
Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834) 21
Kubla Khan 23
The Rime of the Ancient Martner 26
George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) 36
Ghilde Harold's Pilgrtmage 37
Don Juan (The Isles of Greece) 42
When We Tuo Parted 50
She Walks in Beauty 51
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) 54
Song to the Men of England 55
Ode to the West Wind 58
John Keats (1795-1821) 65
On Ftrst Looktng into Chapman's Homer 65
Ode to a Ntghtingale 67
To Autumn 74
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) 77
Old China 79
Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) 86
On the Knockmg at the Gate in Macbeth 87
Walter Scott(1771-1832) 94
Iuanhoe 95
Chapter Ⅸ The Victorian Age (1832-1901) 112
1.Historical background 112
2.The Victorian novelists 116
Charles Dickens (1812-1807) 120
Dombey and Son 122
Bleak House 136
Wilham Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) 140
Vamity Fatr 142
3.The Victorian poets 154
Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) 155
Break,Break,Break 155
Ulysses 157
In Memoriam A.H.H. 161
Robert Browning (1812-1889) 165
My Last Duchess 165
Meeting at Night 169
Parting at Mormng 170
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) 171
Douer Beach 171
The Bronte Sisters 174
Emily Bronte (1818-1848) 177
Wuthering Heights 177
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) 198
Past and Present 199
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) 206
Tess of "The Breaking of Nations" 216
A fteruuards 217
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 219
The Picture of Dorlan Gray 221
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) 234
Major Barbara 236
Chapter X The Twentieth Century 254
1.Modernism 254
Thomas Stearns Ehot (1888-1956) 257
The Loue song of J. A lfred Prufrock 258
James Joyce (1882-1941) 267
Ulysses 269
Stephen Spender (1909-?) 274
The Landscape near an Aerodrome 274
Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) 277
Spain 1937 277
2.Angry Young Men 285
John Osborme (1929-?) 287
Look Back in Anger 287
3.The Theatre of the A bsurd 298
Samuel Beckett (1906-?) 299
W atting for Godot 299
Contents in Chinese 309