Chapter 1 The Beginning Period of English Literature I The Seminal Period 1 Overview 2 Beowulf:An English Epic II The Transitional Period III Three Major Poets in 14th-Century England 1 Overview 2 Geoffrey Chaucer 3 William Langland 4 The Gawain-Poet Chapter 2 The Glory of Poetry:From Sidney to Pope I Overview 1 The Tudors before Queen Elizabeth 2 The Renaissance 3 The Reign of Queen Elizabeth II Major Poets of the Elizabethan Age 1 Sir Philip Sidney 2 Edmund Spenser 3 Shakespeare and Marlowe as Poets 4 John Donne III Metaphysical Poets 1 Donne and Others 2 Comments IV John Milton 1 Life and Achievements 2 Major Poems and Comments V The Neoclassicists 1 John Dryden as a Poet 2 Alexander Pope Chapter 3 The Golden Age of English Drama I Origins and Influences 1 The Thriving Theater 2 Miracle Plays 3 Morality Plays 4 Interludes II The Elizabethan Dramatists Who Influenced Shakespeare 1 University Wits 2 Christopher Marlowe III William Shakespeare 1 Life 2 Major Plays and Comments IV Other Major Dramatists of the Period 1 Ben Jonson 2 John Webster Chapter 4 The Beauty of Prose :From Malory to Pepys I Overview II Sir Thomas Malory III Prose in the 16th Century IV Prose in the 17th Century Chapter 5 The Rise of the Novel I English Novels before the 18th Century II The Rise of the Novel in the 18th Century III The Maturity of the Novel Chapter 6 A False World:English Dream from Dryden to Sheridan I Overview II Restoration Drama III Drama in the 18th Century Chapter 7 Emotion and Nature in Romantic Poetry I Overview II William Blake III Robert Burns IV William Wordsworth V Samuel Taylor Coleridge VI George Gordon,Lord Byron VII Percy Bysshe Shelley VIII John Keats Chapter 8 Female Novelists in 19th-Century England I Overview II Jane Austen III Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley IV The Bronte Sisters V Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell VI George Eliot Chapter 9 Social Images in 19th-Century English Novels I Overview II Charles John Huffam Dickens III William Makepeace Thackeray IV George Meredith V Thomas Hardy Chapter 10 Satirical Voices and Humanistic Concerns:English Prose in the 18th and 19th Centuries I 18th-Century Prose II 19th-Century Prose III Prose Writers at the End of the 19th Century Chapter 11 Various Moods in 19th-Century English Poetry I Overview II Alfred,Lord Tennyson III Robert Browning IV Elizabeth Barrett Browning V Matthew Arnold as a Poet VI Dante Gabriel Rossetti Chapter 12 Social Life on the Stage:English Drama from Wilde to O'Casey I Overview II Oscar Fingal O'Flagerty Wills Wilde III George Bernard Shaw IV John Millington Synge V Sean O'Casey VI Other Writers Contributing to English Drama Chapter 13 The Erosion of Confidence:Major Novelists in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centruies I Overview II Robert Louis Stevenson III Rudyard Kipling IV Joseph Conrad V John Galsworthy VI H.G.(Herbert George)Wells VII Aronold Bennett Chapter 14 The Unseen Reality;The Stream of Consciousness Novels I Overview II Lytton Strachey III Virginia Woolf IV James Augustine Aloysius Joyce Chapter 15 The New Poetry in the 20th Century I Overview II William Butler Yeats III T.S. Eliot IV W.H. Auden V Dylan Marlais Thomas VI Philip Larkin Chapter 16 Spiritual Crisis and Moral Tension:20th-Century Novels before 1950 I Overview II David Herbert Lawrence III William Somerset Maugham IV Katherine Mansfield V George Orwell VI Graham Greene Chapter 17 Despair and Absurdity in Contemporary English Drama I Overview II The Angry Young Men Tradition III The Absurd Tradition IV Caryl Churchill and Other Dramatists Chapter 18 Diversified Topics in Contemporary English Novels I Overview II William Golding III Kingsley Amis IV Alan Sillitoe V Muriel Spark VI Iris Jean Murdoch VII Doris Lessing Bibliography Index
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