Part Ⅰ The Middle Ages(to ca.1485) 1
Unit 1 Beowulf 2
Background Knowledge:The Anglo-Saxon Period(450-1066) 2
Beowulf 6
Beowulf's Fight with Grendel 8
Beowulf's Funeral 11
Unit 2 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 17
Background Knowledge:The Norman Period(1066-1350) 17
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 20
Part Ⅰ 22
Unit 3 Ballads 34
Background Knowledge:The 15th Century(1400-1485) 34
Sir Patrick Spens 38
Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires 41
Unit 4 Geoffrey Chaucer (ca.1343-1400) 49
The Canterbury Tales 51
The General Prologue 53
Part Ⅱ The Sixteenth Century(1485-1603) 71
Unit 5 Edmund Spenser(1552-1599) 76
The Faerie Queene 77
Book Ⅰ Canto Ⅳ 79
Unit 6 Christopher Marlowe(1564-1593) 90
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus 91
Prologue 92
Act Ⅰ Scene Ⅰ 94
Scene Ⅱ 100
Scene Ⅲ 101
Unit 7 William Shakespeare(1564-1616) 108
Sonnet 18 112
Sonnet 29 113
Sonnet 66 113
Romeo and Juliet 114
Act Ⅱ Scene Ⅱ 116
Julius Caesar 125
Act Ⅲ Scene Ⅱ 125
Hamlet 137
Act Ⅰ Scene Ⅱ 138
Act Ⅲ Scene Ⅰ 148
Part Ⅲ The Seventeenth Century(1603-1688) 153
Unit 8 Francis Bacon(1561-1626) 157
Of Marriage and Single Life 159
Of Great Place 160
Of Studies 164
Unit 9 Metaphysical Poets and Cavalier Poets 169
John Donne(1572-1631) 169
The Flea 170
The Sun Rising 172
A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning 174
Sonnet 10 176
Andrew Marvell(1621-1678) 177
To His Coy Mistress 178
George Herbert(1593-1633) 180
Virtue 181
Benjamin Jonson(1572-1637) 182
Song:To Celia 183
Unit 10 John Milton(1608-1674) 186
Paradise Lost 187
Book I The Argument 189
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent 196
Unit 11 John Bunyan(1628-1688) 201
The Pilgrim's Progress 202
Christian Sets out for the Celestial City 202
The River of Death and the Celestial City 210
The Conclusion 216
Part Ⅳ The Eighteenth Century(1688-1798) 219
Unit 12 Daniel Defoe(1660-1731) 226
Robinson Crusoe 227
Chapter Ⅳ First Weeks on the Island 228
Unit 13 Jonathan Swift(1667-1745) 248
A Modest Proposal 249
Gulliver's Travels 259
Part Ⅰ A Voyage to Lilliput 260
Unit 14 Joseph Addison and Richard Steele 271
The Royal Exchange 273
The Cries of London 276
Sir Roger at Church 280
Unit 15 Alexander Pope(1688-1744) 284
An Essay on Man 286
Unit 16 Samuel Johnson(1709-1784) 299
To the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield 301
The Preface to Shakespeare 302
Shakespeare's Excellence.General Nature 303
Shakespeare's Faults.The Three Dramatic Unities 308
Unit 17 Henry Fielding(1707-1754) 313
The History of Tom Jones,a Foundling 314
Book Ⅰ Chapter Ⅲ 315
Book Ⅰ Chapter Ⅳ 319
Book Ⅰ Chapter Ⅵ 321
Book Ⅳ Chapter Ⅷ 325
Unit 18 Richard Brinsley Sheridan(1751-1816) 333
The School for Scandal 334
Act Ⅰ 335
Unit 19 Thomas Gray(1716-1771) 348
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 349
Unit 20 William Blake(1757-1827) 358
From Songs of Innocence,1789 359
The Lamb 359
The Chimney Sweeper 360
Holy Thursday 361
From Songs of Experience,1794 362
Holy Thursday 362
The Chimney Sweeper 362
The Tyger 363
London 364
Unit 21 Robert Burns(1759-1796) 367
Scots,Wha Hae 368
For A'That and A'That 370
My Heart's in the Highlands 372
A Red,Red Rose 372
Auld Lang Syne 373
Bibliography 377