Part 1 English Poetry Before Renaissance Period
Chapter 1 Anglo-Saxon Poetry .............................................................................................. 3
Chapter 2 Anglo-Norman Poetry: The Romance .......................................................... 5
Chapter 3 Geoffrey Chaucer ................................................................................................... 6
The General Prologue ......................................................................................................... 7
Chapter 4 The Fifteenth-century Poetry ....................................................................... 11
Robin Hood and the Bishop ............................................................................................12
Part 2 English Poetry in the Renaissance Period
Chapter 1 Sir Thomas Wyatt .............................................................................................. 22
Farewell, Love ......................................................................................................................23
Chapter 2 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey ...................................................................... 25
Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought .............................................26
Chapter 3 Edmund Spenser ................................................................................................ 28
Sonnet 34 ..............................................................................................................................29
Sonnet 75 .............................................................................................................................. 31
Chapter 4 Sir Walter Raleigh .............................................................................................. 32
The Nymph¡¯s Reply to the Shepherd ............................................................................33
Chapter 5 Sir Philip Sidney ................................................................................................. 36
The Nightingale ..................................................................................................................37
Chapter 6 Christopher Marlowe ....................................................................................... 39
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love ...........................................................................40
Chapter 7 William Shakespeare ........................................................................................ 43
Sonnet 1 ................................................................................................................................44
Sonnet 18 ...............................................................................................................................46
Sonnet 29 ..............................................................................................................................48
Chapter 8 Ben Jonson ............................................................................................................ 50
Song: To Celia ...................................................................................................................... 51
Part 3 English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 1 Metaphysical Poets (1): John Donne ........................................................ 55
The Flea ...............................................................................................................................56
Song .......................................................................................................................................59
Death, Be Not Proud .......................................................................................................... 61
Chapter 2 Metaphysical Poets (2): George Herbert ................................................ 63
Virtue ....................................................................................................................................64
Easter Wings ........................................................................................................................65
Chapter 3 Metaphysical Poets (3): Andrew Marvell ................................................ 68
To His Coy Mistress ...........................................................................................................68
Chapter 4 Cavalier Poets (1): Robert Herrick ............................................................. 73
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time ........................................................................73
Chapter 5 Cavalier Poets (2): Sir John Suckling and Richard Lovelace ........... 75
The Constant Lover ........................................................................................................... 76
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars ........................................................................................78
Chapter 6 John Milton ........................................................................................................... 80
Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint .................................................................. 81
Paradise Lost ........................................................................................................................83
Part 4 English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 1 Alexander Pope ................................................................................................... 87
An Essay on Criticism .......................................................................................................88
Chapter 2 Thomas Gray ........................................................................................................ 93
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ......................................................................93
Chapter 3 Oliver Goldsmith ..............................................................................................104
The Deserted Village .......................................................................................................105
Chapter 4 William Blake.....................................................................................................108
The Chimney Sweeper ....................................................................................................109
London ............................................................................................................................... 112
Chapter 5 Robert Burns ......................................................................................................114
A Man¡¯s a Man for a¡¯ That ............................................................................................. 115
A Red, Red Rose ............................................................................................................... 118
Part 5 English Poetry of the Romantic Period
Chapter 1 William Wordsworth ......................................................................................122
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways......................................................................123
The Solitary Reaper .........................................................................................................124
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud ......................................................................................127
Chapter 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...............................................................................130
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ................................................................................ 131
Chapter 3 George Gordon Byron ....................................................................................137
When We Two Parted ......................................................................................................138
The Isles of Greece ........................................................................................................... 141
Chapter 4 Percy Bysshe Shelley ......................................................................................145
Ode to the West Wind .....................................................................................................145
Chapter 5 John Keats ...........................................................................................................153
On First Looking into Chapman¡¯s Homer .................................................................154
To Autumn .........................................................................................................................156
Ode to a Nightingale ........................................................................................................159
Part 6 English Poetry of the Victorian Period
Chapter 1 Elizabeth Barrett Browning ........................................................................168
Sonnet 14 .............................................................................................................................169
Sonnet 43 ............................................................................................................................170
Chapter 2 Alfred Tennyson ...............................................................................................172
Break, Break, Break .........................................................................................................173
Chapter 3 Robert Browning ..............................................................................................175
My Last Duchess ............................................................................................................... 176
Home¡ªThoughts, from Abroad .................................................................................... 181
Chapter 4 Matthew Arnold ...............................................................................................183
Dover Beach .......................................................................................................................184
Part 7 English Poetry of the Twentieth Century
Chapter 1 Thomas Hardy ...................................................................................................190
The Darkling Thrush ...................................................................................................... 191
Chapter 2 Gerard Manley Hopkins ................................................................................194
God¡¯s Grandeur .................................................................................................................195
Chapter 3 Alfred Edward Housman ..............................................................................196
When I Was One-and-Twenty ........................................................................................197
Loveliest of Trees ..............................................................................................................199
Chapter 4 William Butler Yeats .......................................................................................200
When You Are Old ...........................................................................................................201
The Lake Isle of Innisfree ...............................................................................................203
Chapter 5 Thomas Stearns Eliot .....................................................................................204
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ...........................................................................205
Chapter 6 Wystan Hugh Auden .......................................................................................217
Petition ................................................................................................................................ 218
Chapter 7 Philip Larkin.......................................................................................................220
Going...................................................................................................................................220
Chapter 8 Dylan Thomas ....................................................................................................222
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night ..................................................................222
Chapter 9 Ted Hughes .........................................................................................................225
Hawk Roosting ..................................................................................................................225
Chapter 10 Seamus Heaney .................................................................................................228
Digging ...............................................................................................................................229
Exposure .............................................................................................................................232
Part 1 The Rise and Development of the English Novel
Chapter 1 English Novel of the Sixteenth Century ..................................................240
Chapter 2 English Novel of the Seventeenth Century ............................................241
Chapter 3 John Bunyan .......................................................................................................241
The Pilgrim¡¯s Progress ....................................................................................................243
Part 2 English Novel of the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 1 Daniel Defoe .......................................................................................................255
Robinson Crusoe ..............................................................................................................257
Chapter 2 Jonathan Swift ...................................................................................................262
Gulliver¡¯s Travels ..............................................................................................................264
Chapter 3 Samuel Richardson .........................................................................................272
Clarissa or, the History of a Young Lady .................................................................... 274
Chapter 4 Henry Fielding ...................................................................................................278
Tom Jones ...........................................................................................................................281
Chapter 5 Laurence Sterne................................................................................................286
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman .......................................288
Chapter 6 Oliver Goldsmith ..............................................................................................294
The Vicar of Wakefield ....................................................................................................296
Part 3 English Novel of the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 1 Jane Austen .........................................................................................................303
Pride and Prejudice ..........................................................................................................304
Chapter 2 Walter Scott ........................................................................................................310
Ivanhoe ............................................................................................................................... 312
Chapter 3 Charles Dickens ................................................................................................319
Great Expectations ...........................................................................................................322
Oliver Twist ........................................................................................................................328
Chapter 4 William Makepeace Thackeray ..................................................................335
Vanity Fair ..........................................................................................................................336
Chapter 5 Charlotte Bront? ...............................................................................................342
Jane Eyre .............................................................................................................................343
Chapter 6 Emily Bront? ......................................................................................................354
Wuthering Heights ...........................................................................................................355
Chapter 7 George Eliot ........................................................................................................366
Middlemarch ......................................................................................................................367
Chapter 8 Thomas Hardy ...................................................................................................373
Tess of the D¡¯Urbervilles .................................................................................................375
Chapter 9 Other Novelists .................................................................................................382
Part 4 English Novel of the Modern Age
Chapter 1 John Galsworthy ...............................................................................................387
In Chancery ........................................................................................................................388
Chapter 2 Joseph Conrad ...................................................................................................395
Heart of Darkness .............................................................................................................397
Chapter 3 William Somerset Maugham .......................................................................403
Chapter 4 Virginia Woolf ....................................................................................................404
Mrs. Dalloway ....................................................................................................................406
Chapter 5 James Joyce .........................................................................................................412
Chapter 6 David Herbert Lawrence...............................................................................413
Sons and Lovers ................................................................................................................ 415
Chapter 7 Doris May Lessing ............................................................................................426
The Golden Notebook .....................................................................................................428
Chapter 8 Other Novelists .................................................................................................431
Drama
Part 1 English Drama Before and During the Renaissance
Chapter 1 Medieval English Drama ...............................................................................434
Chapter 2 Christopher Marlowe .....................................................................................438
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus .....................................................................439
Chapter 3 William Shakespeare ......................................................................................443
Hamlet ................................................................................................................................445
Chapter 4 Ben Jonson ..........................................................................................................448
Part 2 English Drama of the Eighteen Century
Chapter 1 Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan .............................................................450
The School for Scandal ...................................................................................................452
Part 3 English Drama of the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 1 Oscar Fingal O¡¯Flahertie Wills Wilde .......................................................457
Part 4 English Drama of the Twentieth Century
Chapter 1 Bernard Shaw ....................................................................................................464
M rs. Warren¡¯s Profession ................................................................................................465
Chapter 2 Samuel Barclay Beckett .................................................................................474
Chapter 3 John James Osborne ........................................................................................476
Chapter 4 Harold Pinter .....................................................................................................477
Essay
Part 1 English Essay of the Renaissance Period
Chapter 1 Francis Bacon ....................................................................................................483
Of Marriage and Single Life ..........................................................................................484
Of Studies ...........................................................................................................................486
Part 2 English Essay of the Seventeenth
and Eighteenth Century
Chapter 1 Joseph Addison and Richard Steele .........................................................490
Chapter 2 John Dryden .......................................................................................................491
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy ..........................................................................................492
Part 3 English Essay of the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 1 Charles Lamb .....................................................................................................497
Dream Children: A Reverie ...........................................................................................498
Chapter 2 William Hazlitt ..................................................................................................503
Chapter 3 Thomas Penson De Quincey ........................................................................504
Chapter 4 John Ruskin ........................................................................................................505
The Seven Lamps of Architecture ................................................................................506
Part 4 English Essay of the Twentieth Century
Chapter 1 David Herbert Lawrence...............................................................................513
Why the Novel Matters .................................................................................................... 513
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