Chapter 1 Old Enslish Literature
��.Historical Background
��.The Development of the English Language
��.Literary Features
��.Representative Writers and Works
��.Beowulf and the Heroic Epic Tradition
Chapter 2 Middle Engilsh Literature(1066-1510)
��.Historical Background
��.Literary Features
��.Roruance and Sir Gawain
��.Popular Ballad
��.Medieval Drama
��.William Langland and Piers Plowman
��.Geoffrey Chaucer
��.Reading
Chapter 3 Literature of Renaissance and Reformation(1510-1620)
��.Historical Background
��.Literary Features
��.Renaissance Poetry
��.Renaissance Prose
��.Renaissance Drama
��.William Shakespeare
��.Reading
Chapter 4 Literature of Revolution and Restoration(1620-90)
��.Historical Background and Literary Features
��.Seventeenth-Century Prose
��.Seventeenth-Century Drama
��.Seventeenth-Century Poetry
��.John Milton
��.Reading
Chapter 5 The Eighteenth Century Literature(1690-1780)
��.Historical Background
��.Literary Features
��.Eighteenth-Century Poetry
��.Eighteenth-Century Prose
��.Eighteenth-Century Novel
��.Eighteenth-Century Drama
��.Reading
Chpater 6 The Literature of the Romantic Period(1780-1831)
��.Historical Background
��.Literary Features
��.Romantic Poetry
��.Romantic Essayists
��.The Novel in the Romantic Period
��.Reading
Chapter 7 Victorian Literature (1832-1900)
��.Historical Background
��.Literary Features
��.Victorian Novel
��.Victorian Poetry
��.Victorian Critics and Historians
��.Victorian Drama
��.Reading
Chapter 8 The Twentieth Century Literature (1900-45)
��.Historical Background
��.Literary Features
��.Modem Poetry to 1945
��.Modem Drama to 1945
��.Modem Novels to 1945
��.Reading
Chapter 9 Engiish Literature Since 1945
��.Historical Background
��.Literary Features
��.Drama Since 1945
��.Novel Since 1945
��.Poetry Since 1945
��.Reading
Selected Bibliography