CHAPTER I ENGLISH LITERATURE TO THE TIME OF CHAUCER I Old English Poetry: Beowulf II Old English Prose: Bede and Alfred III Chivalry and Romance 8IV Folk Tales and Folk Songs CHAPTER II CHAUCER AND THE 15TH CENTURY I Langland, Wycliffe and the Lollards II Chaucer and His Canterbury Tales III The Popular Ballad IV Forms of Early Drama 28 CHAPTER III THE RENAISSANCE I Humanism in England II Non-dramatic Poetry III Tudor Prose IV Predecessors of Shakespeare CHAPTER IV WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I Shakespeare and the Renaissance II Early Tragedies and Comedies III Historical Plays IV Great Tragedies V The Art of Shakespeare CHAPTER V THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY I Francis Bacon II Ben Jonson and John Donne III Milton and the English Revolution IV Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes CHAPTER VI THE LATE 17TH AND THE EARLY 18TH CENTURY I John Bunyan and John Dryden II Addison, Steele and Pope III Daniel Defoe IV Jonathan Swift CHAPTER VII THE MID-18TH CENTURY I Richardson, Smollett and Sterne II Henry Fielding III Johnson and His Circle IV Poetry: From Neo-Classic to Romantic CHAPTER VIII THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (I) I Radicalism and Romanticism II Wordsworth and Coleridge III Sir Walter Scott IV Jane Austen CHAPTER IX THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (II) I George Gordon, Lord Byron II Percy Bysshe Shelley III John Keats CHAPTER X THE VICTORIAN PERIOD (I) I “Cruel Thirties and Hungry Forties” II Charles Dickens III William Makepeace Thackeray IV The Bront.s and Mrs. Gaskell CHAPTER XI THE VICTORIAN PERIOD (II) I Tennyson, Browning and Poetic Retreat II Carlyle, Ruskin and Huxley III George Eliot and Samuel Butler IV Morris and Socialist Romance CHAPTER XII SOME MODERN WRITERS I Thomas Hardy II John Galsworthy III H. G. Wells IV George Bernard Shaw
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