1、Early and Medieval English Literature Three famouse Conquests: The Roman Conquest (55BC- 410AD) The Anglo-Saxon Conquest (449-1066) The Norman Conquest (1066-1485) The Anglo—Saxon Poetry: Pagan Poetry (Beowulf) Religious Poetry (Caedmon and Cynewulf) The Anglo-Saxon Prose: (Prose appeared i
2、n the 8th century ) Venerable Bede (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People) Alfred the Great Medieval Literature 1066: Anglo-Saxon Period bagan 1200: Middle English Literature bagan Raman Cycles: ”Matters of Rome" ”Matters of France" ”Matters of Britain"(Sir Gawain and the Green K
3、night) Geoffrey Chaucer (14th century): 1。The Romance of the Rose (translation from French) 2.The House of Fame 3.Trolius and Criseide 4。The Canterbury Tales John Wycliffe (14th century): the first attempt to translate the latin version of the Bible into Middle English English Renaissan
4、ce literature ( the late 15th century —middle 17th century) Wars and Refromation Thomas More (the first English humanist) Utopia Edmund Spencer: The Shepherds Calendar The Faerie Queene Epithalamion 1595 Bacon: the first English essayist Advancement of Learning 〈<论学术的进展〉> Novum Organum <<
5、新工具>〉 Maxim of the Law 〈〈法律箴言〉〉 Reading on the Statute of Uses <〈谈使用法则〉> Essays<〈随笔〉> University Wits Christopher Marlowe: Tamburlanine the Great The Jew of Malta The Tragical History of Doctore Faustus William Shakespear 37plays ,154 sonnets , and 2 narrative poems Comedies: The Come
6、dy of Error The Taming of the Shrew The Two Gentlemen of Verona Love's labour's Lost // A Midsummer Night's Dream The Merchant of Venice As You Like It Twelfth Night // Troilus and Cressida Tragedies: Titus Andronicus Romeo and Juliet // Julius Caesar // Antony and Cleopatra //
7、Hamlet Othello King Lear Macbeth Historical plays: Henry VI Richard III // Richard II Henry IV Henry V Cymbeline The Winter's Tale The Tempest The Life of King Henry VIII The Seventeenth Century (Revolution, Puritanism and Restoration) Literature in the Revolution Period Three
8、Johns: John Donne (founder of Metaphysical school) Songs and Sonnets Devotion Upon Emergent Occasions John Milton: Lycidas Areopagitica<〈论出版自由〉> In Defense of the English People More in Defense of the British People Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Samson Agonistes John Bunyan:
9、The pilgrim Progress Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners The Life and Death of Mr。Badman The Holy War The 18th Century Literature Industrial Revolution, Enclosure and Enlightenment Movement Neoclassicism John Dryden Alexander Pope Samuel Johnson John Dryden : The Year of Wonders Ab
10、salom and Achitophel The Hind and the Panther〈〈牝鹿与豹〉> A Song for St.Cecilia Day Alxander's Feast The Rival Ladies The Conquest of Grenada Marriage la Mode All for Love An Essay of Dramatic Poesy<<论戏剧诗〉> Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism The Rape of the Lock The Dunciad An
11、 Essay on Man Epistle to Dr.Arbuthnot Iliad and Odyssey The Works of Shakespeare Samuel Johnson: A Dictionary of the English Language London The Vanity of Human Wishes The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia Irene Lives of the Poets Richard Steele: The Tatler Joesph Add
12、ison: The Spectator Daniel Defoe: The Shortest Way with Dissenters <<消灭不同教派的捷径〉> Robinson Crusoe Moll Flanders Roxand Swift Works: The Battle of Books A Tale of the Tub The Drapier's Letters Gulliver’s Travels A Modest Proposal Samuel Richardson: Pamela (Virtue Rewarded) Clariss
13、a Howe Sir Charles Grandison Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrew Jonathan Wild Great Tom Jones, the Foundling Amelia Sentimentalism Graveyard School Thomas Gray: An Elegy written in a Country Churyard On the Death of a Favorite Cat The Progress of Poetry The Bard The Descent of Odin
14、 The Correspondence Robert Blair : The Grave Edward Young: Night Thoughts Thomas Parnell: Night—Piece on Death James Harvey: Meditation Romanticism Lake Poets William Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert Southey: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Christable Kub
15、la Khan Frost at Midnight Biographia Literaria Satanic Poets Lord Byron : Hours of Idleness English Bards and Scottish Reviews 〈〈英国诗人可苏格兰评论家〉〉 Childe Harold’s Pligrimage Giaour <<异教徒>> The Bride of Abydos<〈阿比多斯的新娘>〉 The Corsair<<海盗>> Lara <〈拉腊>〉 Parisna The Sieage of Corinth〈<科林斯之围〉〉
16、 Don Juan John Keats: His 1819 odes Percy Bysshe Shelley: Men of England Ode to the West Wind Prometheus Unbound A Defense of Poetry Novels in 19th century: Mary W. Shelley: Frankenstein;or ,The Modern Prometheus Charlotte Jane Eyre Shirley Villette Professor Emily: Wuthering
17、 the Heights Anne: Agnes Grey The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Elizabeth C.Gaskell: The life of Charlotte Bronte Mary Barton Moorland Cottage Cranford Ruth North and South Wives and Daughters Walter Scott: Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border The Lay of the last Minstrel Marmion The lady of the Lake The Waverley Novels ( Waverley Guy Mannering Old Morality Rob Roy The Heart of Midlothian )






