Part One Old English Literature
I.Histiorical Background
II.The Development of the English Language
III.Literary Features
IV.Representative Writers and Works
V.Beowulf and the Heroic Epic Tradition
Part Two Middle English Literature
I.Historical Background
II.Literary Features
III.Romance and Sir Gawain
IV.Popular Ballad
V.Medieval Drama
VI.William Langland and Piers Plowman
VII.Geoffrey Chaucer
VIII.Reading
The Canterbury Tales
Part There Literature of Renaissance and Reformation
I.Historical Background
II.Literary Features
III.Renaissance Poetry
Part Four Literature of Revolution and Restoration
Part Five The Eighteenth Century Literature
Part Six The Literature of the Romantic Period
Part Seven Victorian Literature
Part Eight The Twentieth Century Literature
Part Nine English Literature sINCE 1945
Selected Bibliography