Chapter One English Literature in the Anglo - Saxon Period Section One The Historical and Cultural Context Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation Section Three The Poetry Section Four The Prose Chapter Two English Literature in the Medieval Period Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation Section Three The Poetry Section Four The Prose Section Five The Drama Chapter Three English Literature in the Renaissance Section One The Historical and Cultural Context Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation Section Three The Poetry Section Four The Prose Section Five The Drama Chapter Four English Literature m the Seventeenth Century Section One The Historical and Cultural Context Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation Section Three The Metaphysical Poets and the Cavalier Poets Section Four John Milton Section Five John Bunyan Section Six The Restoration Drama Section Seven John Dryden Chapter Five English Literature in the Eighteenth Century Section One The Historical and Cultural Context Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation Section Three The Poetry Section Four Essays Section Five The Fiction Section Six The Drama Chapter Six English Literature in the Romantic Age Section One The Historical and Cultural Context Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation Section Three The Poetry Section Four The Novel Section Five The Prose Section Six The Drama Chapter Seven English Literature in the Victorian Age Section One The Historical and Cultural Context Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation Section Three The Victorian Poetry Section Four The Coming of Age of the Novel of Critical Realism Section Five Several Minor Novelists Section Six Several Female Novelists Section Seven The Victorian Prose Chapter Eight English Literature in the First Half of the Twentieth Century Section One The Historical and Cultural Context Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation Section Four The Continuity of the Realistic Novels in the First Two Decades Section Five The Precursors of the Modernist Novels Section Six The Summit of the Modernist Novels Section Seven The Novels of Social Satire Section Eight The Short Fiction Section Nine The Irish Dramatic Revival Chapter Nine English Literature in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century Section One The Historical and Cultural Context Section Two The Literary Tradition and the Innovation Section Three The Poetry Section FourThe Nove Section Five The Drama 后記