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CHapter ⅠThe Anglo-Saxon Perlod (450-1066)1

1．Historical background1

2．Northumbrian School and Wessex Iiterature3

3．Anglo-Saxon poetry Beoundf4

CHapter Ⅱ The Norman period ( 1066-1350)14

1．Historical background14

2．Middle English15

3．Religious literature15

4．Roumance and the influence of French literature16

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight18

Historical background23

CHapter Ⅲ The age of Chaucer (1350-1400)23

Geoffrey Chaucer (ca.1340?-1400)27

The Canterbury Tales31

CHapter ⅣThe Fifteenth Century(1400-1550)47

1．Historical background47

2．Popular ballads48

3．Sir Thomas Malory (ca．1405-1471)49

4．Early English plays50

The popular Ballads52

The Three Ravens52

Sir Patrick Spens54

Robin Hood and the Three Squires57

2．The enclosure movement63

1．Historical background63

Chapter ⅤThe English renaissance (1550-1642)63

3．Humanism64

Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599)65

The Faerie Queene68

4．The flourishing of drama79

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)81

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus83

William Shakes peare (1564-1616)88

Sonnets92

Sonnet 1893

Sonnet 2994

Sonnet 6695

Romeo and Juliet97

The Merchant of Venice100

Julius Caesar123

Hamlet138

Chapter Ⅵ The seventeenth Century (1603-1688)147

1．Historical background147

The ．king James Bible of 1611150

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)157

Of Great place158

Of Studies164

2．Metaphysical Poets and Cavalier Poets168

John Donne (1572-1631)169

Song170

The Canonization172

A valediction：Forbidding mourning177

George Herbert (1593-1633)181

Virtue181

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)183

Song to Celia183

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)185

Tothe Virgins, To Make Much of Time185

John Milton〔1608-1674〕187

To Mr,Cyriack Skunner Upon His Blindness190

John Bunyan (1628-1688)192

Poradise Lost192

The Pilgrim's Progress198

John Dryden (1631-1700)200

An Essay of Dramatic Poesy206

CHapter Ⅶ The Eighteenth Century (1688-1798)212

Historical background212

Daniel Defoe (1661-1731)217

Moll Flanders221

Jonathan Swift 〔1667-1745〕229

A Modest Proposal232

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and Ricbard Steele(1672-1729)245

The Royal Exchange247

Sir Roger at Church253

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)257

An Essay on Man260

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)265

Letter to the Right Honourable The Earl of Chester field266

The Preface to Shakespeare269

Henry Fielding (1707-1754)274

The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling278

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)291

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard292

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)301

The School for Scandal302

Robert Burns (1759-1796)319

Is There for Honest Ponerty320

Scots, Wha Hae322

Auld Lang Syne324

A Red, Red Rose326

William Blake (1757-1827)328

Songfs of Innocence330

The Lamb330

Holy Thursday331

Songs of Experience332

The Chirnney Suueeper332

Holy Thursday333

The Tyger334

London335

Contents in Chinese338