Chapter 1 The Beginning Period of English Literature
I The Seminal Period
1 Overview
2 Beowulf:An English Epic
II The Transitional Period
III Three Major Poets in 14th-Century England
1 Overview
2 Geoffrey Chaucer
3 William Langland
4 The Gawain-Poet
Chapter 2 The Glory of Poetry:From Sidney to Pope
I Overview
1 The Tudors before Queen Elizabeth
2 The Renaissance
3 The Reign of Queen Elizabeth
II Major Poets of the Elizabethan Age
1 Sir Philip Sidney
2 Edmund Spenser
3 Shakespeare and Marlowe as Poets
4 John Donne
III Metaphysical Poets
1 Donne and Others
2 Comments
IV John Milton
1 Life and Achievements
2 Major Poems and Comments
V The Neoclassicists
1 John Dryden as a Poet
2 Alexander Pope
Chapter 3 The Golden Age of English Drama
I Origins and Influences
1 The Thriving Theater
2 Miracle Plays
3 Morality Plays
4 Interludes
II The Elizabethan Dramatists Who Influenced Shakespeare
1 University Wits
2 Christopher Marlowe
III William Shakespeare
1 Life
2 Major Plays and Comments
IV Other Major Dramatists of the Period
1 Ben Jonson
2 John Webster
Chapter 4 The Beauty of Prose :From Malory to Pepys
I Overview
II Sir Thomas Malory
III Prose in the 16th Century
IV Prose in the 17th Century
Chapter 5 The Rise of the Novel
I English Novels before the 18th Century
II The Rise of the Novel in the 18th Century
III The Maturity of the Novel
Chapter 6 A False World:English Dream from Dryden to Sheridan
I Overview
II Restoration Drama
III Drama in the 18th Century
Chapter 7 Emotion and Nature in Romantic Poetry
I Overview
II William Blake
III Robert Burns
IV William Wordsworth
V Samuel Taylor Coleridge
VI George Gordon,Lord Byron
VII Percy Bysshe Shelley
VIII John Keats
Chapter 8 Female Novelists in 19th-Century England
I Overview
II Jane Austen
III Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
IV The Bronte Sisters
V Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
VI George Eliot
Chapter 9 Social Images in 19th-Century English Novels
I Overview
II Charles John Huffam Dickens
III William Makepeace Thackeray
IV George Meredith
V Thomas Hardy
Chapter 10 Satirical Voices and Humanistic Concerns:English Prose in the 18th and 19th Centuries
I 18th-Century Prose
II 19th-Century Prose
III Prose Writers at the End of the 19th Century
Chapter 11 Various Moods in 19th-Century English Poetry
I Overview
II Alfred,Lord Tennyson
III Robert Browning
IV Elizabeth Barrett Browning
V Matthew Arnold as a Poet
VI Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Chapter 12 Social Life on the Stage:English Drama from Wilde to O'Casey
I Overview
II Oscar Fingal O'Flagerty Wills Wilde
III George Bernard Shaw
IV John Millington Synge
V Sean O'Casey
VI Other Writers Contributing to English Drama
Chapter 13 The Erosion of Confidence:Major Novelists in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centruies
I Overview
II Robert Louis Stevenson
III Rudyard Kipling
IV Joseph Conrad
V John Galsworthy
VI H.G.(Herbert George)Wells
VII Aronold Bennett
Chapter 14 The Unseen Reality;The Stream of Consciousness Novels
I Overview
II Lytton Strachey
III Virginia Woolf
IV James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
Chapter 15 The New Poetry in the 20th Century
I Overview
II William Butler Yeats
III T.S. Eliot
IV W.H. Auden
V Dylan Marlais Thomas
VI Philip Larkin
Chapter 16 Spiritual Crisis and Moral Tension:20th-Century Novels before 1950
I Overview
II David Herbert Lawrence
III William Somerset Maugham
IV Katherine Mansfield
V George Orwell
VI Graham Greene
Chapter 17 Despair and Absurdity in Contemporary English Drama
I Overview
II The Angry Young Men Tradition
III The Absurd Tradition
IV Caryl Churchill and Other Dramatists
Chapter 18 Diversified Topics in Contemporary English Novels
I Overview
II William Golding
III Kingsley Amis
IV Alan Sillitoe
V Muriel Spark
VI Iris Jean Murdoch
VII Doris Lessing
Bibliography
Index
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