Unit1 Early and Medieval English Literature 1
Introduction 1
Geoffrey Chaucer(c.1340--c.1400) 4
The Canterbury Tales 4
Supplementary Readings(1) 10
Unit2 The English Renaissance(1) 13
Introduction 13
William Shakespeare(1564--1616) 17
The Merchant of Venice 18
Hamlet,Prince of Denmark 31
Supplementary Readings(2) 34
Unit3 The English Renaissance(2) 49
Introduction 49
Francis Bacon(1561--1626) 51
Of Studies 52
Ben Jonson(1572--1637) 54
Song:To Celia 55
Supplementary Readings(3) 56
Unit4 The Early 17th Century 62
Introduction 62
John Milton(1608--1674) 64
Paradise Lost 65
Supplementary Readings(4) 70
Unit5 The Restoration and the 18th Century 77
Introduction 77
Jonathan Swift(1667--1745) 80
A Modest Proposal 81
Supplementary Readings(5) 89
Introduction 98
Unit6 Romantic Poets 98
William Wordsworth(1770--1850) 101
I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud 103
Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772--1834) 104
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 105
John Keats(1795--1821) 108
Ode on a Grecian Urn 109
Supplementary Readings(6) 112
Unit7 The Novel:1720--1880 131
Introduction 131
Seminar Questions/Essay(Term Paper) Titles 138
Unit8 The Victorian Age 142
Introduction 142
Robert Browning(1812--1889) 145
My Last Duchess 146
Supplementary Readings(7) 149
Unit9 Into the 20th Century 166
Introduction 166
Wilfred Owen 176
Futility 176
Supplementary Readings(8) 178
Unit10 The Short Story 184
Introduction 184
Katherine Mansfield(1888-1923) 185
Sixpence 185
James Joyce 192
Eveline 192
Appendix1 198
Appendix2 207
Acknowledgements 209