英国文学经典选读

PartITheMiddleAges(toca.1485)

Unit1Beowulf

BackgroundKnowledge:TheAnglo-SaxonPeriod(450=1066)

Beowulf

BeowulfsFightwithGrendel

BeowulfsFuneral

Unit2SirGawainandtheGreenKnight

BackgroundKnowledge:TheNormanPeriod(I066-1350)

SirGawainandtheGreenKnight

PartI

Unit3Ballads

BackgroundKnowledge:The15thCentury(1400-1485)

SirPatrickSpens

RobinHoodRescuingThreeSquires

Unit4GeoffreyChaucer(ca.1343-1400)

TheCanterburyTales

TheGeneralPrologue

PartIITheSixteenthCentury

(1485-1603)

Unit5EdmundSpenser(1552-1599)

TheFaerieQueene

BookICantoIV

Unit6ChristopherMarlowe(1564-1593)

TheTragicalHistoryofDoctorFaustus

Prologue

ActISceneI

SceneII

SceneIII

Unit7WilliamShakespeare(1564-1616)

Sonnet18

Sonnet29

Sonnet66

RomeoandJuliet

ActIISceneII

JuliusCaesar

ActIIISceneII

Hamlet

ActISceneII

ActIIISceneI

PartIIITheSeventeenthCentury

(1603-1688)

Unit8FrancisBacon(1561-1626)

OfMarriageandSingleLife

OfGreatPlace

OfStudies

Unit9MetaphysicalPoetsandCavalierPoets

JohnDonne(1572-1631)

TheFlea

TheSunRising

AValediction:ForbiddingMourning

Sonnet10

AndrewMarvell(1621-1678)

ToHisCoyMistress

GeorgeHerbert(1593-1633)

Virtue

BenjaminJonson(1572-1637)

Song:ToCelia

Unit10JohnMilton(1608-1674)

ParadiseLost

BookITheArgument

WhenIConsiderHowMyLightIsSpent

Unit11JohnBunyan(1628-1688)

ThePilgrimsProgress

ChristianSetsoutfortheCelestialCity

TheRiverofDeathandtheCelestialCity

TheConclusion

PartIVTheEighteenthCentury

(1688-1798)

Unit12DanielDefoe(1660-1731)

RobinsonCrusoe

ChapterIVFirstWeeksontheIsland

Unit13JonathanSwift(1667-1745)

AModestProposal

GulliversTravels

PartIAVoyagetoLilliput

Unit14JosephAddisonandRichardSteele

TheRoyalExchange

TheCriesofLondon

SirRogeratChurch

Unit15AlexanderPope(1688-1744)

AnEssayonMan

Unit16SamuelJohnson(1709-1784)

TotheRightHonourabletheEarlofChesterfield

ThePrefacetoShakespeare

ShakespearesExcellence.GeneralNature

ShakespearesFaults.TheThreeDramaticUnities.,

Unit17HenryFielding(1707-1754)

TheHistoryofTomJones,aFoundling

BookIChapterIII

BookIChapterIV

BookIChapterVI

BookIVChapterVIII

Unit18RichardBrinsleySheridan(1751-1816)

TheSchoolforScandal

ActI

Unit19ThomasGray(1716-1771)

ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard

Unit20WilliamBlake(1757-1827)

FromSongsofInnocence,1789

TheLamb

TheChimneySweeper

HolyThursday

FromSongsofExperience,1794

HolyThursday

TheChimneySweeper

TheTyger

London

Unit21RobertBurns(1759-1796)

Scots,WhaHae

ForAThatandAThat

MyHeartsintheHighlands

ARed,RedRose

AuldLangSyne

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