PART Ⅰ.The Anglo-Saxon Period 1
Beowulf 7
PART Ⅱ.The Anglo-Norman Period 19
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 24
PART Ⅲ.Geoffrey Chaucer 45
The Canterbury Tales 47
General Prologue 50
Popular Ballads 56
Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale 58
Get Up and Bar the Door 65
Sir Patrick Spens 67
PART Ⅳ.The Renaissance 71
William Shakespeare 74
Hamlet(Act Ⅲ，Scene Ⅰ；Ace Ⅴ，Scene Ⅱ) 79
The Merchant of Venice(Act Ⅳ，Scene Ⅰ) 98
Sonnet 18 129
Sonnet 29 130
Sonnet 106 131
Francis Bacon 132
Of Truth 135
Of Studies 138
PART Ⅴ.The 17th Century 142
The Period of Revolution and Restoration 142
John Donne 145
Song(“Go and Catch a Falling Star”) 148
A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning 149
Sonnet:Death be not Proud 151
John Milton 152
Paradise Lost(Book Ⅰ) 158
Sonnet:On His Blindness 163
Sonnet:On His Deceased Wife 164
John Bunyan 165
The Pilgrim’s Progress 169
(Christian Sets out for the Celestial City) 169
(Vanity Fair) 175
PART Ⅵ.The 18th Century 180
The Age of Enlightenment in England 180
Daniel Defoe 188
Robinson Crusoe 190
Crusoe Visits the Wreck 194
The Footprint 198
Crusoe Saves Friday from the Cannibals 199
Jonathan Swift 205
Gulliver’s Travels 212
A Voyage to Llliput 212
A Voyage to Brobdingnag 222
A Modest Proposal 235
Joseph Addison 249
Sir Roger at Church 255
Sir Roger at the Assizes 259
Henry Fielding 264
The History of Tom Jones,a Foundling 267
(Book Ⅳ，Chapter ⅩⅢ；Book Ⅻ Chapter Ⅹ Ⅳ) 269
Thomas Gray 277
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 279
Oliver Goldsmith 287
The Vicar of Wakefield(Chapter Ⅳ) 289
Richard Brinsley Sheridan 293
The School for Scandal(Act Ⅰ，Scene Ⅰ) 295
William Blake 314
London 319
The Tiger 320
The Chimney Sweeper 322
Robert Burns 323
My Heart’s in the Highlands 326
John Anderson,My Jo 327
A Red,Red Rose 328
To a Mouse 329