PART ONE A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
Chapter One Anglo-Saxon Literature
Ⅰ.Introduction
1.Anglo-Saxon Conquest
2.Characteristics of Anglo-Saxon Literature
Ⅱ.Anglo-Saxon Poetry
1.Pagan Poetry
2.Religious Poetry
Ⅲ.Anglo-Saxon Prose
1.Venerable Bede
2.Alfred the Great
3.Aelfric
Exercise 1
Chapter Two Medieval English Literature
Ⅰ.Anglo-Norman Literatuure
1.Introduction
2.The Romance in the Anglo-Norman Period
Ⅱ.English Literature in the Age of Chaucer
1.Introduction
2.William Langland
3.Geoffrey Chaucer
Ⅲ.English Literature in the 15th Century
1.English and Scottish Ballads
2.Thomas Malory
Exercise 2
Chapter Three English Literature in the Renaissance Period
Chapter Four English Literature in the 17th Century
Chapter Five English Literature in the 18th Century
Chapter Six English Literature in the Romantic Age
Chapter Seven English Literature in Victorian Age
Chapter Eight English Literature in the 20the Century
PART TWO SELECTED READINGS
Chapter One English Poetry
Chapter Two English Prose
Chapter Three English Novel
Chapter Four English Drama
Appendix 1 Key to Exercises
Appendix 2 Literary Terms
Appendix 3 Bibliography