目錄
前言
Poetry
Part one Early and Medieval Period 1
Chapter 1 Anglo-Saxon Poetry 2
Chapter 2 Anglo-Norman Poetry 5
Chapter 3 Poetry in the Age of Chaucer 7
Chapter 4 The Fifteenth Century Poetry 14
Part Two The Sixteenth Century 19
Chapter 1 The Renaissance in England 19
Chapter 2 Sir Thomas Wyatt 20
Chapter 3 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 22
Chapter 4 Sir Philip Sidney 24
Chapter 5 Edmund Spenser 26
Chapter 6 Sir Walter Ralegh 33
Chapter 7 Christopher Marlowe 35
Chapter 8 William Shakespeare 37
Chapter 9 Ben Jonson 39
Part Three The Seventeenth Century 42
Chapter 1 Revolution and Restoration 42
Chapter 2 Metaphysical Poets G
Chapter 3 Cavalier Poets 51
Chapter 4 John Milton 56
Part Four The Eighteenth Century 62
Chapter 1 General View of the 18th century English Poetry 62
Chapter 2 Alexander Pope 64
Chapter 3 Thomas Gray 69
Chapter 4 William Collins 70
Chapter 5 Oliver Goldsmith 72
Chapter 6 William Blake 75
Chapter 7 Robert Burns 79
Part Five The Nineteenth Century (Ⅰ) 85
Chapter 1 The English Romantic Movement 85
Chapter 2 William Wordsworth 87
Chapter 3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 90
Chapter 4 George Gordon Byron 96
Chapter 5 Percy Bysshe Shelley 101
Chapter 6 John Keats 110
Part Six The Nineteenth Century (Ⅱ) 117
Chapter 1 General View of the English Poetry 117
Chapter 2 Elizabeth Barrett Browning 119
Chapter 3 Alfred Tennyson 121
Chapter 4 Robert Browning 125
Chapter 5 Matthew Arnold 133
Chapter 6 Dante Gabriel Rossetti 135
Part Seven The Twentieth Century 137
Chapter 1 General View of the English Poetry 137
Chapter 2 Thomas Hardy 141
Chapter 3 Gerard Manley Hopkins 144
Chapter 4 A.E.Housman 145
Chapter 5 William Butler Yeats 147
Chapter 6 Thomas Steams Eliot 150
Chapter 7 Rupert Brooke 159
Chapter 8 Robert Graves 160
Chapter 9 Wystan Hugh Auden 162
Chapter 10 Philip Larkin 165
Chapter 11 Dylan Thomas 166
Chapter 12 Ted Hughes 168
Chapter 13 Seamus Heaney 171
Novel
Part Eight Evolution of the English Novel 177
Chapter 1 The Rise of the English Novel 177
Chapter 2 Aphra Behn 181
Part Nine The Eighteenth Century English Novel 189
Chapter 1 The Rapid Growth of the English Novel 189
Chapter 2 Daniel Defoe 191
Chapter 3 Jonathan Swift 200
Chapter 4 Samuel Richardson 202
Chapter 5 Henry Fielding 207
Chapter 6 Oliver Goldsmith 210
Part Ten The Nineteenth Century 215
Chapter 1 The Prosperous Period in Novel Writing 215
Chapter 2 Jane Austen 217
Chapter 3 Walter Scott 221
Chapter 4 Charles Dickens 229
Chapter 5 William Makepeace Thackeray 233
Chapter 6 Charlotte Bronte 239
Chapter 7 Emily Bronte 241
Chapter 8 George Eliot 243
Chapter 9 Thomas Hardy 251
Part Eleven The Twentieth Century 254
Chapter 1 The Development of the English Novel 254
Chapter 2 John Galsworthy 257
Chapter 3 Joseph Conrad 265
Chapter 4 E.M.Forster 273
Chapter 5 Virginia Woolf 275
Chapter 6 James Joyce 280
Chapter 7 D.H.Lawrence 292
Chapter 8 George Orwell 293
Drama
Part Twelve Major English Dramatists and Selected Plays 303
Chapter 1 General View of the English Drama 303
Chapter 2 Major English Dramatists 313
Chapter 3 Selected Plays William Shakespeare 333
Essay
Part Thirteen Major Essayists and Selected Essays 348
Chapter 1 General View of the English Essay 348
Chapter 2 Major Essayists 354
Chapter 3 Selected Essays 362