Chapter One Old English Literature 1.1 Historical Background 1.2 The Development of the English Language 1.3 Literary Features 1.4 Representative Writers and Works 1.5 Beowulf and the Heroic Epic Tradition Chapter Two Middle English Literature (1066-1510) 2.1 Historical Background 2.2 Literary Features 2.3 Romance and Sir Gawain 2.4 Popular Ballad 2.5 Medieval Drama 2.6 William Langland and Piers Plowman 2.7 Geoffrey Chaucer (1942/43-1400) 2.8 Reading Chapter Three Literature of Renaissance and Reformation (1510-1620) 3.1 Historical Background 3.2 Literary Features 3.3 Renaissance Poetry 3.3.1 Sir Phillip Sydney (1554-1586) 3.3.2 Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) 3.4 Renaissance Prose 3.5 Renaissance Drama 3.6 William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 3.7 Reading Chapter Four Literature of Revolution and Restoration (1620-1690) 4.1 Historical Background 4.2 Literary Features 4.3 Seventeenth-Century Prose 4.3.1 Francis Bacon (1561-1626) 4.3.2 John Bunyan (1628-1688) 4.4 Seventeenth-Century Drama 4.5 Seventeenth-Century Poetry 4.5.1 John Donne (1572-1631) 4.5.2 John Dryden (1631-1700) 4.6 John Milton (1608-1674) 4.7 Reading Chapter Five The Eighteenth-Century Literature (1690-1780) Chapter Six The Literature of the Romantic Period (1780-1831) Chapter Seven Victorian Literature (1832-1900) Chapter Eight The Twentieth-Ccntury Literafure (1900-1945) Chapter Nine English Literature (Since 1945) References
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