A Brief History of Emglish Literature簡明英國文學(xué)史

Chapter One Old and Medieval Literature
Old English Literature(450-1066)
Beowulf
Other Poems
Prose
Middle English Literature(1066-1485)
The Gawain Poet
Other Poets
Geoffrey Chaucer(1340-1400)
Chapter Two Renaissance and Reformation Literature
Background
Thomas More(1478-1535)
Sir Thomas Wyatt(1503-1542)
The Earl of Surrey(1518-1547)
Sir Philip Sidney(1554-1586) and Walter Raleigh(1527-1618)
Edmund Spenser(1552-1599)
Early Drama
The University Wits
Christopher Marlowe(1564-1593)
William Shakespeare(1564-1616)
Chapter Three The 17th Century
Shakespeare's Successors
Ben Jonson(1573-1637)
Other Playwrights
John Donne and the Metaphysical Plets
John Milton(1608-1674)
Prose
Francis Bacon(1561-1626)
The English Bible
Other Prose Writers
John Bunyan(1628-1688)
John Dryden(1631-1700)
Chapter Four The 18th Century
Chapter Five The Age of Romanticism(1790-1840)
Chapter Six Victorian Literature(1837-1901)
Chapter Seven First Halp of the 20th Century
Chapter Eight Decond Halp of the 20th Century
Chronology
References