Chapter 01 The Renaissance Period William Shakespeare Shakespeare's life Shakespeare's literary, creation Selected readings Hamlet A plot summary of Hamlet Reading guide An excerpt from Hamlet Sonnet 18 Chapter 02 The Puritan Age John Donne John Donne's life John Donne's literary creation Selected readings Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star The Sun Rising A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning John Milton John Milton's life John Milton's literary creation Features of Milton's poetry Selected readings Paradise Lost A plot summary of Paradise Lost Reading guide An excerpt from Paradise Lost On His Blindness John Bunyan John Bunyan's life Bunyan's literary creation Selected reading The Pilgrim's Progress A plot summary of the allegory Reading guide An excerpt from The Pilgrim's Progress Chapter 03 The Neoclassical Period Jonathan Swift Swift's life Swift's literary creation Selected readings A Modest Proposal Gulliver's Travels A plot summary of the novel Reading guide An excerpt from Part 1 Henry Fielding Fielding's life Fielding's literary creation Selected reading Tom Jones A plot summary of the novel Reading guide An excerpt from Chapter Ⅷ, Book Ⅲ An excerpt from Chapter Ⅹ, Book Ⅲ An excerpt from Chapter Ⅶ, Book Ⅶ Thomas Gray Gray's life Works of Gray Selected reading Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Chapter 04 The Age of Romanticism William Wordsworth Wordsworth's life Wordsworth's literary creation Selected readings She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud The Solitary Reaper Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey George Gordon, Lord Byron Byron's life Byron's poetic writing Features of Byron's poetry Selected readings She Walks in Beauty When We Two Parted Childe Harold's Pilgrimage A plot summary of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Reading guide An excerpt from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage(Canto the Third) Don Juan A plot summary of Don Juan Reading guide An excerpt from Don Juan (Canto Ⅲ The Isles of Greece) jane Austen Austen's life Austen's works Selected reading Pride and Prejudice A plot summary of the novel Reading guide An excerpt from Pride and Prejudice Chapter 05 The Victorian Period Alfred, Lord Tennyson Tennyson's life Tennyson's poetic writing Features of Tennyson's poetry Selected readings Break, Break, Break The Eagle Ulysses In Memoriam (CXXX) Charles Dickens Dickens' life Dickens' works Characteristics of Dickens' novels Selected reading Oliver Twist The story of Oliver Twist Reading guide An excerpt from Oliver Twist Charlotte Bronte Charlotte Bronte's life Charlotte Bronte's works Selected reading Jane Eyre A plot surhmary of the novel Reading guide An excerpt from Jane Eyre Thomas Hardy Hardy's life Hardy's works Selected reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles A plot summary of the novel Reading guide An excerpt from Tess of the D'Urbervilles Chapter 06 The Modern Period D. H. Lawrence Lawrence's life Lawrence's literary creation Selected reading Sons and Lovers A plot summary of the novel Reading guide An excerpt from Sons and Lovers Virginia Woolf Woolf's life Woolf's literary creation Selected reading Mrs. Dalloway A plot summary of the novel Reading guide An excerpt from Mrs. Dalloway Chapter 07 The Postmodern Period Kingsley Amis Amis' life Amis' literary creation Selected reading Lucky Jim A plot summary of the novel Reading guide An excerpt from Lucky Jim Samuel Beckett Beckett's life Beckett's literary creation Selected reading Waiting for Godot (Act I) A plot summary of the play Reading guide An excerpt from Waiting for Godot
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