Preface 1
Ⅰ．The Middle Ages 1
Beowulf 4
Bede 7
Alfred 8
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 12
The Popular Ballad and The Geste of Robin Hood 13
Piers Plowman 14
Geoffrey Chaucer 15
The Canterbury Tales 17
Morte d'Arthur 23
The Early Drama 24
Ⅱ．Renaissance 26
The Historical Background 26
The Development of Literature 29
William Shakespeare 37
Hamlet 43
Act Ⅲ，Scene Ⅰ 43
The Merchant of Venice 46
Act Ⅳ,Scene Ⅰ 46
Sonnet 18 65
Sonnet 29 66
Francis Bacon 67
Of Studies 70
Of Youth and Age 72
Ⅲ．The Period of the Puritan Revolution and the Period of the Restoration 76
The Historical Background 76
The Development of the Literature 78
John Milton 83
from Paradise Lost 89
To Mr.Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness 96
John Bunyan 98
from The Pilgrim's Progress 100
John Dryden 113
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy 116
Ⅳ．The Age of Enlightenment 123
The Historical Background 123
The Development of Literature 126
Daniel Defoe 143
Robinson Crusoe 147
The Other Side of the Island 147
Crusoe Saves Friday from the Cannibals 154
Jonathan Swift 159
Gulliver's Travels 163
Chapter Ⅳ 163
ChapterⅥ 170
Henry Fielding 177
The History of Tom Jones，A Foundling 179
BookⅢ,ChapterⅡ 179
ChapterⅧ 187
Robert Burns 189
My Heart's in the Highlands 193
A Red,Red Rose 194
Ⅴ．The Romantic Period 196
The Historical Background 196
The Development of the Literature 197
William Wordsworth 198
Lines Composed A Few Miles Above 204
Tintern Abbey 204
I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud 211
The Solitary Reaper 213
George Noel Gordon Byron 215
The Isle of Greece 220
Percy Bysshe Shelley 226
Song to the Men of England 230
Ode to the West Wind 233
John Keats 239
Ode to a Nightingale 242
Jane Austen 248
Pride and Prejudice 250
Chapter Ⅰ 250
Ⅵ．Literature of Critical Realism 255
The Historical Background 255
The Development of Literature 259
Charies Dickens 281
David Copperfield 285
ChapterⅣ 285
ChapterⅪ 288
William Makepeace Thackeray 296
Vanity Fair 300
ChapterⅡ 300
Charlotte Brontё 314
Jane Eyre 316
Chapter Ⅴ 316
Emily Brontё 334
Wuthering Heights 334
Chapter ⅩⅤ 334
Thomas Hardy 344
Tess ofthe D'Urbervilles 349
Chapter ⅩⅩⅩⅤ 349
Ⅶ．The Twentieth Century Engl ish Literature 361
The Historical Background 361
The Development of Literature 362
John Galsworthy 372
The Forsyte Sag:In Chancery 375
George Bernard Shaw 382
Mrs.Warren's Profession 387
ActⅡ 387
Joseph Conrad 411
from Heart of Darkness 413
E.M.Forster 427
A Passage to India 429
PartⅡ:Caves 429
D.H.Lawrence 441
Sonsand Lovers 444
Chapter Ⅹ 444
T.S.Eliot 471
The Waste Land 474
Ⅰ．The Burial of the Dead 474
Virginia Woolf 483
from To the Lighthouse 486
James Joyce 497
A Portrait ofthe Artist as a Young Man 500
Chapter Ⅰ 500
Chapter Ⅴ 505
Main Reference Books 510