Chapter I Old and Medieval English Literature Ⅰ. An Outline of the Literature of This Period Ⅱ. Beowulf Ⅲ. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Ⅳ. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales （Excerpt） Chapter 2 The Renaissance Period Ⅰ. An Outline of the Literature of This Period Ⅱ. Christopher Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Ⅲ. William Shakespeare Hamlet, Prince of Denmark （Excerpt） The Merchant of Venice （Excerpt） Macbeth （Excerpt） Sonnet 18 Sonnet 29 Ⅳ. Francis Bacon Of Studies Ⅴ. Iohn Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Death, Be Not Proud Ⅵ. John Milton Paradise Lost （Excerpt） On His Blindness Ⅶ. John Bunyan The Pilgrim' s Progress （Excerpt） Chapter 3 The Age of Enlightenment Ⅰ. An Outline of the Literature of This Period Ⅱ. Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe （Excerpt） Moll Flanders （Excerpt） Ⅲ. Jonathan Swift Gulliver' s Travels （Excerpt） A Modest Proposal Ⅳ. Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard （Excerpt） Ode on the Spring Ⅴ. Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism （Excerpt） Ⅵ. Richard Bringsley Sheridan The School for Scandal （Excerpt） Ⅶ. Samuel Johnson Letter to the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield Chapter 4 The Romantic Period Ⅰ. An Outline of the Literature of This Period Ⅱ. William Blake The Chimney Sweeper The Chimney Sweeper The Tyger Ⅲ. Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose My Heart's in the Highlands Ⅳ. William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud …… Chapter 5 The Victorian Age Chapter 6 The Modern Period References
