Chapter 1：Early and Medieval English Literature 1
Geoffrey Chaucer 4
Chapter 2：English Literature of the Renaissance 21
Francis Bacon 23
William Shakespeare 27
Ben Jonson 41
Christopher Marlowe 44
Chapter 3：English Literature during the English Bourgeois Revolution and the Restoration 55
John Milton 57
John Bunyan 64
Chapter 4：Eighteenth Century English Literature 77
Daniel Defoe 81
Jonathan Swift 92
Henry Fielding 105
William Blake 114
Robert Burns 120
Chapter 5：English Literature of Early Nineteenth Century 127
William Wordsworth 130
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 140
George Gordon Byron 149
Percy Bysshe Shelley 159
John Keats 167
Walter Scott 175
Jane Austen 189
Chapter 6：English Literature of the Mid-and-late-nineteenth Century 201
William Makepeace Thackeray 206
Charles Dickens 216
Robert Browning 227
Charlotte Brontё and Emily Brontё 232
George Eliot 252
Matthew Arnold 262
Thomas Hardy 266
Oscar Wilde 278
Chapter 7：English Literature of the Twentieth Century before World War Ⅱ 289
George Bernard Shaw 291
Joseph Conrad 308
William Butler Yeats 321
Virginia Woolf 325
James Joyce 338
D.H.Lawrence 347
T.S.Eliot 361
Works Cited 367