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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