Part One
Chapter One The Bible and British Literature
Introduction to the Bible
Section One:Important Biblical Characters
Selected Reading:Paradise Lost by John Milton
Section Two:Important Biblical Themes——Christian Virtues
Selected Reading:The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Section Three:Biblical Imagery
Selected Reading:Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Chapter Two Greek Mythology and British Literature
Introduction to Greek Mythology
Greek Mythology in British Literature
Selected Readings
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Sonnet XXXIII:Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint by John Milton
The Garden by Andrew Marvell
Chapter Three British Society and British Literature
Section One:English Renaissance and Humanism
Selected Reading:Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
Section Two:Metaphysical Poetry and English Society in the Early 17 Century
Selected Reading:A Valediction:Forbidden Mourning by John Donne
Section Three:Literature in English Revolution and Restoration Period
Selected Reading:Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Section Four:Neo-Classicism
Selected Reading:Epigrams by Alexander Pope
Section Five:English Romanticism
Selected Reading:The Isles of Greece by Lord Byron
Section Six:Critical Realism
Selected Reading:Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Section Seven:Aestheticism
Selected Reading:The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Section Eight:British Modernism
Selected Reading:Araby by James Joyce
Part Two
Chapter Four British Poetry
Key Questions to the Art of Poetry
Sample Analysis :The Lake Isle oflnnisfree by William Butler Yeats
Selected Readings
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
Sonnet 43 by William Shakespeare
Death, Be Not Proud by John Donne
A Red Red Rose by Robert Bums
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
When We Two Parted by George Gordon Byron
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Eagle:A Fragment by Alfred Tennyson
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night by Dylan Thomas
Chapter Five British Fiction
Key Questions to the Art of Fiction
Selected Readings
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
Chapter Six British Drama
Key Questions to the Art of Drama
Selected Readings
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
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