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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