part i the middle ages
chapter1 the anglo-saxon period
beowulf
chapter2 the anglo-norman period
sir gawain and the green knight
chapter 3 geoffrey chaucer
the canterbury tales
chapter 4 popular ballads
robin hood and allin-a-dale
 
get up and bar the door
sir patrick spens
part ii the renaissance
chapter 5 william shakespeare
the tragedy of hamlet�� prince of denmark
the merchant of venice
sonnet 18
sonnet 29
sonnet 106
chapter 6 francis bacon
of studies
 
part iii the period of revolution and restoration
chapter 7 john donne
song
a valediction�� forbidding mourning
death be not proud
chapter 8 john milton
paradise lost
on his blindness
on his deceased wife
chapter 9 john bunyan
the pilgrim's progress
 
part iv the age of enligtenment