Part Ⅰ The Middle Ages (to ca. 1485) Unit 1 Beowulf Unit 2 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Unit 3 Ballads Unit 4 Geoffrey Chaucer (ca.1343-1400) Part Ⅱ The Sixteenth Century(1485-1603) Unit 5 Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) Unit 6 Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) Unit 7 William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Part Ⅲ The Seventeenth Century(1603-1688) Unit 8 Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Unit 9 Metaphysical Poets and Cavalier Poets Unit 10 John Milton (1608-1674) Unit 11 John Bunyan (1628-1688) Part Ⅳ The Eighteenth Century(1688-1798) Unit 12 Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) Unit 13 Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Unit 14 Joseph Addison and Richard Steele Unit 15 Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Unit 16 Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Unit 17 Henry Fielding (1707-1754) Unit 18 Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) Unit 19 Thomas Gray (1716-1771) Unit 20 William Blake (1757-1827) Unit 21 Robert Burns (1759-1796) Bibliography