CONTENTSUnit 1 Geoffrey Chaucer(1343-1400) 1
The Canterbury Tales 2
Unit 2 William Shakespeare(1564-1616) 7
Hamlet 8
Romeo and Juliet 10
Sonnet 18 13
Unit 3 Francis Bacon(1561-1626) 16
Of Marriage and Single Life 17
Of Studies 18
Unit 4 17th-Century British Poets 22
John Donne(1572-1631) 22
John Milton(1608-1674) 26
Unit 5 Adventure Fiction Writers 33
Daniel Defoe(1660-1731) 33
Jonathan Swift(1667-1745) 39
William Blake(1757-1827) 48
Unit 6 Romantic Poets(Ⅰ) 48
Robert Burns(1759-1796) 52
William Wordsworth(1770-1850) 56
Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834) 59
Unit 7 Jane Austen(1775-1817) 64
Pride and Prejudice 65
Unit 8 Romantic Poets(Ⅱ) 74
George Gordon Byron(1788-1824) 74
Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822) 77
John Keats(1759-1821) 82
Unit 9 Charlotte Brontё(1816-1855) 87
Jane Eyre 88
Unit 10 Charles Dickens(1812-1870) 99
Great Expectations 100
Unit 11 Victorian Poets 112
Alfred Tennyson(1809-1892) 112
Robert Browning (1812-1889) 115
Matthew Arnold(1822-1888) 118
Unit 12 Thomas Hardy(1840-1928) 122
Tess of the D'Urbevilles 123
Unit 13 Modern Dramatists 132
Oscar Wilde(1854-1900) 132
George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950) 139
Unit 14 Joseph Conrad(1857-1924) 146
The Lagoon 147
Unit 15 20th-Century British Poets(Ⅰ) 158
T.S.Eliot(1888-1965) 158
William Butler Yeats(1865-1939) 167
Unit 16 Modernist Novelists(Ⅰ) 170
James Joyce(1882-1941) 170
Virginia Woolf(1882-1941) 176
Unit 17 Modernist Novelists(Ⅱ) 180
D.H.Lawrence (1885-1930) 180
Unit 18 E.M.Foster(1879-1970) 194
The Road from Colonus 195
Unit 19 William Golding(1911-1993) 205
Lord of the Flies 206
Unit 20 Doris Lessing(1919- ) 215
A Woman on a Roof 216
Unit 21 John Fowles(1926- ) 224
The French Lieutenant's Woman 225
Unit 22 20th-Century British Poets(Ⅱ) 233
Dylan Thomas(1914-1953) 233
Philip Larkin(1922-1985) 236
Ted Hughes(1930-1998) 238
Seamus Heaney(1939-) 240
Unit 23 Antonia Susan Byatt(1936- ) 244
Rose-coloured Teacups 245
Unit 24 Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul(1932- ) 251
Prelude:An Inheritance 252
Unit 25 Graham Swift(1949- ) 259
Our Nicky's Heart 260