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1 0ld English Literature
Beowulf
‘The Seafarer’and‘The Wanderer’
Battle Poems and‘The Dream of tlle 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
WiUiam 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
Mexander Pope
The Augustan Age
Edward Gibbon，Samuet 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
Wallter 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 vnices
10 Victorian Literature，1837—1857
C：harles Dickens
Charlotte and Emily BrontE
William Makepeace Thackeray,Elizabeth Gaskell
Mfred Lord Tennyson，Robert Brownin9，Elizabeth
Barrett Browning
11 Victorian Literature，1 857-1 876
Victorian Thinkers
George Eliot
Wlkie Collins and出e Sensation Novel
Anthony Trollope，Christina Rossetti
12 Victorian Literature，1876—1901
Thomas Hardv
George Gissin9，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 l930s
15 The Twentieth Century：The Second World War to the End
of the Millennium
Wartime and Post一War Britain
Drama
Novels
Poetry
16 Postscript
The Twenty—First Century
Periods ofEnglish Literature and Language
Chronology
Further Reading
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