●Preface
TheAnglo-SaxonPeriod449-1066
Introduction
TheVenerableBedeandCaedmon
KingAlfredtheGreat
Beowulf
TheExeterBook
TheMedievalPeriod1066-1485
Introduction
MedievalRomance
FolkBallads
JohnWycliffeandWilliamLangland
DramaintheMiddleAges
GeoffreyChaucer
TheElizabethanAge1485-1625
Introduction
ThomasMore
SirPhilipSidney
EdmundSpenser
ChristopherMarloweandSirWalterRaleigh
MinorPlaywrights
WilliamShakespeare
FrancisBacon
KingJamesBible
TheSeventeenthCentury1625-1700
Introdution
BenJonsonandtheCavalierPoets
JohnDonneandtheMetaphysicalPoets
JohnMilton
JohnBunyan
JohnDryden
TheAgeofNeo-Classicism1700-1764
Introduction
AlexanderPope
JonathanSwift
RichardSteeleandJosephAddison
SamuelJohnsonandJamesBoswell
TheNoveloftheEighteenthCentury
DanielDefoe
SamuelRichardson
HenryFielding
TobiasSmollett
LaurenceSterne
OliverGoldsmith
Pre-RomanticPeriod1764-1798
Introduction
HoraceWalpole
AnnRadcliffe
ThomasGray
RobertBurns
WilliamBlake
TheRomanticAge1798-1837
Introduction
WilliamWordsworth
SamuelTaylorColeridge
……
TheVictorianAge1837-1901
TheModernistAge1901-1945
The tmodernPeriod1945-Present
Bibliography
Index
