Unit 1 Early and Medieval English Literature Introduction Geoffrey Chaucer(c.1340—c.1400) The Canterbury Tales Supplementary Readings(1) Unit2 The English Renaissance(1) Introduction William Shakespeare(1564—1616) The Merchant of Venice Hamlet,Prince of Denmark Supplementary Readings(2) Unit3 The English Renaissance(2) Introduction Francis Bacon(1561—1626) Of Studies Ben Jonson(1572—1637) Song:To Celia Supplementary Readings(3) Unit4 The Early 17th Century Introduction John Milton(1608—1674) Paradise Lost Supplementary Readings(4) Unit5 The Restoration and the 18th Century Introduction Jonathan Swift(1667—1745) A Modest Proposal Supplementary Readings(5) Unit6 Romantic Poets Introduction William Wordsworth(1770—1850) I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772—1834) The Rime of the Ancient Mariher John Keats(1795—1821) Ode on a Grecian Urn Supplementary Readings(6) Unit7rhe Novel:1720—1880 Introduction Seminar/Essay Topics Unit8 The Vietorian Age Introduction Robert Browning(1812—1889) My Last Duchess Supplementary Readings(7) Unit 9 Into the 20th Century Introduction Wilfred Owen Futility Supplementary Readings(8) Unit 10 The Short Story Introduction Katherine Mansfield(1888—1923) Sixpence James Joyce Eveline Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Aeknowledgements