Part �� British Literature
Literary Background Information
Unit 1 Geoffrey Chaucer (1343—1400)
The Canterbury Tales
Unit2 William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
Hamlet
Sonnet 18
Unit 3 Daniel Defoe ( 1660—1731 )
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Unit 4 Romantic Poets
A Red Red Rose
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
She Walks in Beauty
Unit 5 Jane Austen (1775—1817)
Pride and Prejudice
Unit 6 Charlotte Bronte(1816—1855)
Jane Eyre
Unit 7 Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
Great Expectations
Unit 8 Victorian Poets
The Eagle
My Last Duchess
Unit 9 Thomas Hardy (1840—1928)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Unit 10 George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
Pygmalion
Unit 11 James Joyce (1882—1941)
Araby
Unit 12 Doris Lessing (1919—2013)
AWomanonaRoof/
Unit 13 20th-Century British Poets
The Tree
Hawk Roosting
Part �� American Literature
Literary Background Information
Unit 14 Edgar Allan Poe (1809—1849)
The Cask of Amontillado
To Helen/ 147
Unit 15 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864)
The Scarlet Letter
Unit 16 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
Self-Reliance
Unit 17 19th-Century American Poets
One's Self I Sing
O Captain! My Captain!
Because I Could not Stop for Death
Success Is Counted Sweetest/ 173
Unit 18 Mark Twain (1835—1910)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Unit 19 Katherine Anne Porter (1890—1980)