Chapter One The Early and Medieval English Literature
1.1 An Overview of the Early and Medieval English Literature
1.2 Beowulf
1.3 William Langland and His Piers the Plowman
1.4 Geoffrey Chaucer and His The Canterbury Tales
Chapter Two The Literature of the English Renaissance
2.1 An Overview of the Literature of the English Renaissance
2.2 Thomas More and His Utopia
2.3 Edmund Spenser and His The Faerie Queene
2.4 Christopher Marlowe and His Doctor Feustus
2.5 William Shakespeare and His The Merchant of Venice
Chapter Three The Literature of the English Bourgeois Revolution
3.1 An Overview of the Literature of the English Bourgeois Revolution
3.2 John Donne and His“The Flea”
3.3 John Milton and His Paradise Lost
3.4 John Bunyan and His The刚gr|m’s Progress
3.5 John Dryden and His An Essay ofDramatic Poesy
Chapter Three The 18th century English Literature
4.1 An Overview of the 18”一century English Literature
4.2 Alexander Pope and His The Rape of the Lock
4.3 Jonathan Swift and His Gulfiver's Travels
4.4 Daniel Defoe and His Robmson Crusoe
4.5 Richard Brinsley Sheridan and His The Schoolfor Scandal
4.6 William Blake and His Songs ofInnocence and Songs of Experience
Chapter five The Literature of English Romanticism
5.1 An Overview of the Literature of English Romanticism
5.2 William Wordsworth and His“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
S.3 George Gordon Byron and His Don Juan
5.4 Percy Bysshe Shelley and His Prometheus Unbound
5.5 John Keats and His“To Autumn”
5.6 Charles Lamb and His Essays ofElia
5.7 Walter Scott and His Ivanhoe
Chapter Six The Victorian Literature
6.1 An Overview of the Victorian Literature
6.2 Charles Dickens and His David Copperfieldll
6.3 William Makepeace Thackeray and His Vanity Fair
6.4 Charlotte Bront and Her Jane Eyre
6.5 Emily Bronti and Her Wuthering Heights
6.6 Alfred Tennyson and His In Memorian
6.7 Robert Browning and His The Ring and the Book
6.8 Thomas Carlyle and his The French Revolution
Chapter Seven The 20m—century English Literature
7.1 An Overview of the 20th-century English Literature
7.2 Thomas Hardy and His Tess ofthe D’Urbervilles
7.3 Bernard Shaw and His Pygmalion
11.4 William Butler Yeats and His“The Wild Swans at Coole
7.5 David Herbert Lawrence and His Sons and Lovers
Chapter Eight The American Literature of the Colonial Period
8.1 An Overview ofthe American Literature ofthe Colonial Period
8.2 Anne Bradstreet and Her“To My Dear and Loving Husband
8.3 Philip Freneau and His“The Wild Honey Suckle”
Chapter Nine The Literature of American Romanticism
9.1 An Overview of the Literature of American Romanticism
9.2 Washington Irving and His HRip Van Winkle
9.3 Ralph Waldo Emerson and His Nature
9.4 Nathaniel Hawthorne and His The Scadet Letter
9.5 Edgar Allan Poe and His“To Helen”
9.6 Walt Whitman and His“O Captain!My Captain!”
Chapter Ten The Literature of American Realism
10.1 An Overview of the Literature of American Realism
10.2 Mark Twain and His The Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn
10.3 Henry James and His The Portrait ofA Lady
10.4 Theodore Dreiser and His Sster C0rrie
们.5 Jack London and His The Call ofthe w-Id
Chapter Eleven The 20th-century American Literature
11.1 An Overview of the 20”-century American Literature
11.2 Francis Scott Fitzgerald and His The Great Gatsby
11.3 Ernest Hemingway and His The Sun Also R西Ps
11.4 Robert Frost and His“The Road Not Taken
Chapter Twelve Poem Analysis
12.1 Ways of Analyzing a Poem
12.2 “Sonnet 18”by William Shakespeare
12.3 “A Red.Red Rose”by Robert Burns
12.4 “l Hear America Singing”by Walt Whjtman
12.5 “Success Is Counted Sweetest”by Emily Dickinson
Chapter Thirteen Drama Analysis
13.1 Ways of Analyzing a Drama
13.2 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
