Part I The Middle Ages （to ca 1485）
Unit I Beowulf
Background Knowledge： The Anglo-Saxon Period （450-1066）
Beowulf
Beowulf' s Fight with Grendel
Beowulf' s Funeral
Unit 2 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Background Knowledge： The Norman Period （1066-1350）
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Part I
Unit 3 Ballads
Background Knowledge： The 15th Century （1400-1485）
Sir Patrick Spens
Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires
Unit 4 Geoffrey Chaucer （ca 1343-1400）
The Canterbury Tales
The General Prologue
Part II The Sixteenth Century
（1485-1603）
Unit 5 Edmund Spenser （1552-1599）
The Faerie Queene
Book I Canto IV
Unit 6 Christopher Marlowe （1564-1593）
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Prologue...
Act I Scene I
Scene II
Scene III
Unit 7 William Shakespeare （1564-1616）
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 29
Sonnet 66
Romeo and Juliet
Act II Scene II Capulet's Orchard
Julius Caesar
Act III Scene II The Forum
Hamlet
Act I Scene II A Room of State in the Castle
Act III Scene I
Part III The Seventeenth Century
（1603-1688）
Unit 8 Francis Bacon （1561-1626）
Of Marriage and Single Life
Of Great Place
Of Studies
Unit 9 Metaphysical Poets
John Donne （1572-1631）
The Flea
The Sun Rising
A Valediction： Forbidding Mourning
Sonnet 10 （From Holy Sonnets）
Andrew Marvell （1621-1678）
To His Coy Mistress
George Herbert （1593-1633）
Virtue
Unit 10 John Milton （1608-1674）
Paradise Lost
Book I The Argument
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
Unit 11 John Bunyan （1628-1688）
The Pilgrim's Progress
Christian Sets out for the Celestial City
The River of Death and the Celestial City
The Conclusion
Part IV The Eighteenth Century
（1688-1798）
Unit 12 Daniel Defoe （1660-1731）
Robinson Crusoe
Chapter IV First Weeks on the Island
Unit 13 Jonathan Swift （1667-1745）
A Modest Proposal
Gulliver's Travels
Part I A Voyage to Lilliput
Unit 14 Joseph Addison （1672-1719） and
Richard Steele （1672-1729）
The Royal Exchange
The Cries of London
Unit 15 Alexander Pope （1688-1744）
An Essay on Man
Epistle 1. Of the Nature and State of Man with Respect to
the Universe
Unit 16 Samuel Johnson （1709-1784）
To the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield
The Preface to Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Excellence. General Nature
Unit 17 Henry Fielding （1707-1754）
The History of Tom Jones， a Foundling
Book I Chapter II]
Book I Chapter IV
Unit 18 Thomas Gray （1716-1771）
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Unit 19 William Blake （1757-1827）
From Songs of innocence， 1789
The Lamb
The Chimney Sweeper
Holy Thursday
From Songs of Experience， 1794
Holy Thursday
The Chimney Sweeper
The Tyger
London
Unit 20 Robert Burns （1759-1796）
Scots， Wha Hae
For A' That and A' That
My Heart's in the Highlands
A Red， Red Rose
Auld Lang Syne
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