Chapter One The English Renaissance（1500-1625） 1
Introduction to the Background 1
William Shakespeare 4
Sonnet 18 5
The Merchant of Venice 6
Chapter Two The Seventeenth Century（1625-1700） 15
Introduction to the Background 15
John Donne 17
A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning 18
Sonnet 10 20
John Milton 21
Paradise Lost 23
Chapter Three The Eighteenth Century（1700-1798） 27
Introduction to the Background 27
Daniel Defoe 30
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe 31
Robert Burns 40
Selected Poems 42
William Blake 46
Selected Poems 47
Chapter Four The Romantic Period（1798-1832） 50
Introduction to the Background 50
William Wordsworth 54
Selected Poems 55
Percy Bysshe Shelley 58
Ode to the West Wind 59
John Keats 63
Ode to a Nightingale 64
Jane Austen 68
Emma 69
Chapter Five The Victorian Age（1832-1901） 81
Introduction to the Background 81
Charles Dickens 85
Oliver Twist 87
William Makepeace Thackeray 100
Vanity Fair 101
Emily Brontё 110
Wuthering Heights 111
Thomas Hardy 125
Tess of the D'Urbervilles 126
The Darkling Thrush 135
Chapter Six The Twentieth Century（1900- ） 138
Introduction to the Background 138
Joseph Conrad 141
Heart of Darkness 143
William Butler Yeats 156
The Second Coming 157
Thomas Stearns Eliot 159
The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock 160
James Joyce 167
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 168
D.H.Lawrence 179
Women in Love 180
Katherine Mansfield 192
The Garden Party 193
Virginia Woolf 206
Mrs Dalloway 207
Edward Morgan Forster 216
A Passage to India 217
Samuel Beckett 230
Waiting for Godot 231
William Golding 243
Lord of the Flies 245
John Fowles 253
The French Lieutenant's Woman 255
Doris Lessing 269
A Road to the Big City 270
Key 278
References 289