Part I Old and Middle English Periods (450-1485)
Chapter 1 Old English Period and Beowulf
I. Old English Period
II. Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Beowulf
Chapter 2 Middle English Period and Chaucer
I. Middle English Period
II. Geoffrey Chaucer
Part II English Renaissance and Shakespeare (1485-1616)
Chapter 3 The English Renaissance Literature
I. Introduction of the Period
II. Ten Renaissance Writers
Chapter4 William Shakespeare
I. Shakespeare﹀s Life and Achievements
II. Discussions of Shakespeare﹀s Major Works
Part III The Seventeenth Century (1616-1688)
Chapter 5 The Bourgeois Revolution and Milton
I. Background Knowledge
II. John Milton
Chapter 6 The Metaphysical Poets and the Restoration Drama
I. The Metaphysical Poets
II. The Restoration Drama
Chapter 7 Dryden and Bunyan
I. John Dryden
II. John Bunyan
Part IV The Eighteenth Century (1688-1780)
Chapter 8 The Age of Classicism
I. Background Knowledge of the First Half of the Eighteenth Century
II. Discussions of the Chief Representatives
Chapter 9 The Rise of the Novel
I. Background Knowledge About the Rise of the Novel in England
II. Discussions of the Major Novelists
Chapter 10 The Pro-Romantic Literature
I. Background Knowledge About the Literature at the Turf of the Century
II. Pre-RomanticPoetry
III. The Gothic Novel
Part V The Romantic Period (1780-1830)
Chapter 11 Wordsworth and Coleridge
I. Background Knowledge
II. The Romantic Sage, William Wordsworth
III. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet and Critic
Chapter 12 Byron, Shelley and Keats
I. George Gordon Byron and the Byronic Hero
II. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet and Utopian Socialist
III. John Keats, the Poet of Beauty
Chapter 13 Walter Scott and Jane Austen
I. Walter Scott, Romantic Writer of Historical Themes
II. Jane Austen, Novelist of Social Manners
Part VI The Victorian Literature (1830-1880)
Chapter 14 The Victorian Age
I. Background Knowledge
II. Major Literary Achievements
Chapter 15 Victorian Novelists
I. Charles Dickens
II. William Makepeace Thackeray
III. Charlotte and Emily Bront
IV. George Eliot
Chapter 16 Victorian Poets
I. Alfred Tennyson
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