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前辅文
1 Old English Literature
  Beowulf
  ‘The Seafarer’ and ‘The Wanderer’
  Battle Poems and ‘The Dream of the Rood’
  Old English Language
2 Middle English Literature
  From the Norman Conquest to Chaucer
  Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  Geoffrey Chaucer, William Dunbar, Robert Henryson
  William Langland, Medieval Drama, Thomas Malory
3 Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose
  Sir Thomas Wyatt
  Sixteenth-Century Prose and the Reformation
  The Sonnet: Sir Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare
  Edmund Spenser
4 Shakespeare
  Shakespeare in Context
  Shakespeare’s Comedies and Histories
  Shakespeare’s Tragedies
  Shakespeare’s Late Plays
5 Renaissance and Restoration Drama
  Renaissance Drama and Christopher Marlowe
  Elizabethan and Jacobean Revenge Tragedy
  Ben Jonson and the Masque
  Restoration Drama
6 Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose
  John Donne
  From Ben Jonson to John Bunyan and Andrew Marvell
  John Milton
  John Dryden
7 The Eighteenth Century
  Alexander Pope
  The Augustan Age
  Edward Gibbon, Samuel Johnson
  Sensibility
8 The Novel: The First Hundred Years
  Daniel Defoe
  Aphra Behn, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Tobias Smollett
  From Eliza Haywood to Mary Shelley
  Walter Scott and Jane Austen
9 The Romantic Period
  The Age of Revolution
  William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats
  Radical Voices
10 Victorian Literature, 1837–1857
  Charles Dickens
  Charlotte and Emily Brontë
  William Makepeace Thackeray, Elizabeth Gaskell
  Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
11 Victorian Literature, 1857–1876
  Victorian Thinkers
  George Eliot
  Wilkie Collins and the Sensation Novel
  Anthony Trollope, Christina Rossetti
12 Victorian Literature, 1876–1901
  Thomas Hardy
  George Gissing, George Moore, Samuel Butler, Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson
  Rudyard Kipling
  George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Late Victorian Poetry
13 The Twentieth Century: The Early Years
  Joseph Conrad
  Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, E. M. Forster, Katherine Mansfield
  D. H. Lawrence
  Georgian Poetry, War Poetry, W. B. Yeats
14 The Twentieth Century: Between the Wars
  T. S. Eliot
  James Joyce
  Virginia Woolf
  The 1930s
15 The Twentieth Century: The Second World War to the End of the Millennium
  Wartime and Post-War Britain
  Drama
  Novels
  Poetry
16 Postscript
  The Twenty-First Century
Periods of English Literature and Language
Chronology
Further Reading

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