Unit 1 Early and Medieval English Literature
Introduction
Geoffrey Chaucer(c.1340—c.1400)
The Canterbury Tales
Supplementary Readings(1)
Unit2 The English Renaissance(1)
Introduction
William Shakespeare(1564—1616)
The Merchant of Venice
Hamlet，Prince of Denmark
Supplementary Readings(2)
Unit3 The English Renaissance(2)
Introduction
Francis Bacon(1561—1626)
Of Studies
Ben Jonson(1572—1637)
Song：To Celia
Supplementary Readings(3)
Unit4 The Early 17th Century
Introduction
John Milton(1608—1674)
Paradise Lost
Supplementary Readings(4)
Unit5 The Restoration and the 18th Century
Introduction
Jonathan Swift(1667—1745)
A Modest Proposal
Supplementary Readings(5)
Unit6 Romantic Poets
Introduction
William Wordsworth(1770—1850)
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772—1834)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariher
John Keats(1795—1821)
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Supplementary Readings(6)
Unit7rhe Novel：1720—1880
Introduction
Seminar/Essay Topics
Unit8 The Vietorian Age
Introduction
Robert Browning(1812—1889)
My Last Duchess
Supplementary Readings(7)
Unit 9 Into the 20th Century
Introduction
Wilfred Owen
Futility
Supplementary Readings(8)
Unit 10 The Short Story
Introduction
Katherine Mansfield(1888—1923)
Sixpence
James Joyce
Eveline
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Aeknowledgements
