Unit 1 William Shakespeare 1
Sonnet 18:Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? 2
Romeo and Juliet 3
Unit 2 Francis Bacon 7
Of Travel 7
Unit 3 Pioneering Novelists 11
1.Daniel Defoe 11
Robinson Crusoe 11
2.Johnathan Swift 14
Gulliver's Travels 14
3.Henry Fielding 20
The History of Tom Jones,a Foundling 20
Unit 4 Richard Brinsley Sheridan 26
The School for Scandal 26
Unit 5 Romantic Poets 40
1.William Blake 40
Holy Thursday(from Songs of Innocence) 41
Holy Thursday(from Songs of Experience) 42
2.Robert Burns 44
A Red,Red Rose 44
Auld Lang Syne 46
3.William Wordsworth 48
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 48
Unit 6 Realistic Writers 51
1.Jane Austen 51
Pride and Prejudice 52
2.William Makepeace Thackeray 60
Vanity Fair 60
3.Charles Dickens 69
Great Expectations 69
4.Charlotte Bront? 75
Jane Eyre 75
Unit 7 Victorian Poets 87
1.Elizabeth Barrett Browning 87
Sonnet 43:How Do I Love Thee? 88
2.Alfred Tennyson 90
The Lady of Shalott 90
3.Robert Browning 93
My Last Duchess 93
4.Mathew Arnold 97
Dover Beach 97
Unit 8 Thomas Hardy 100
Tess of the D'Urbervilles 100
Unit 9 Oscar Wilde 107
The Importance of Being Earnest 107
The Picture of Dorian Gray 126
Unit 10 George Bernard Shaw 138
Pygmalion 138
Unit 11 Joseph Conrad 144
Heart of Darkness 144
Unit 12 John Galsworthy 168
The Man of Property 168
Unit 13 E.M.Forster 185
A Passage to India 185
Unit 14 Virginia Woolf 195
Mrs.Dalloway 196
Unit 15 James Joyce 206
Araby 207
Unit 16 D.H.Lawrence 214
The Rocking-Horse Winner 214
Unit 17 Samuel Beckett 230
Waiting for Godot 231
Unit 18 William Golding 239
Lord of the Flies 239
References 265