THE EARLIEST YEARS ...5 // Beowulf and other Anglo-Saxon poetry ...5 // Beowulf ...5 // Other Anglo-Saxon poetry ...5 // Anglo-Saxon Prose ...6 // Aelfric ...6 // Summary ...6 // Comprehension ...6 // Vocabulary ...6 // LITERATURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES ...7 // William Langland ...7 // Geoffrey Chaucer ...7 // Other Prose of the Middle Ages ...8 // The First Play wights ...8 // Summary ...8 // Comprehension ...9 // Vocabulary ...9 // THE RENAISSANCE ...10 // Christopher Marlowe ...10 // Edmund Spenser ...10 // William Shakespeare ...11 // John Donne ...12 // BenJonson ...13 // Thomas Nashe ...13 // Francis Bacon ...14 // Summary ...14 // Comprehension ...14 // Vocabulary ...15 // THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ...16 // John Milton ...16 // JohnBunyan ...17 // JohnDryden ...17 // William Congreve ...18 // Summary ...18 // Comprehension ...18 // Vocabulary ...19 // THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ...20 // The Eighteenth Century in Britain ...20 // Jonathan Swift ...20 // Alexander Pope ...21 // Henry Fielding ...21 // The Eighteenth Century in America ...23 // Benjamin Franklin ...23 // Summary ...24 // Comprehension ...24 // Vocabulary ...24 // BRITISH ROMANTICISM ...25 // William Blake ...25 // Robert Bums ...26 // William Wordsworth ...26 // Samuel Coleridge ...27 // Jane Austen ...27 // Lord Byron ...28 // Percy Bysshe Shelley ...29 // John Keats ...30 // Summary ...30 // Comprehension ...31 // Vocabulary ...31 // THE NINETEENTH CENTURY ...32 // The Nineteenth Century in Britain ...32 // Walter Scott ...32 // Alfred Lord Tennyson ...33 // William Thackeray ...33 // Robert Browning ...35 // Charles Dickens ...35 // Charlotte Bronte ...36 // Emily Bronte ...37 // Lewis Carroll ...: ...37 // Thomas Hardy ...37 // Oscar Wilde ...39 // Rudyard Kipling ...40 // Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ...40 // The Nineteenth Century in America ...40 // Washington Irving ...41 // Ralph Waldo Emerson ...41 //
Nathaniel Hawthorne ...42 // Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ...42 // Edgar Allan Poe ...43 // Harriet Beecher Stowe ...44 // Henry David Thoreau ...45 // Herman Melville ...45 // Walt Whitman ...46 // Emily Dickinson ...46 // Mark Twain ...46 // Summary ...48 // Comprehension ...48 // Vocabulary ...49 // THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ...50 // The Twentieth Century in Britain ...50 // George Bernard Shaw ...50 // Joseph Conrad ...51 // William Butler Yeats ...52 // H.G. Wells ...52 // William Sommerset Maugham ...52 // James Joyce ...53 // Virginia Woolf ...53 // D. H. Lawrence ...53 // T. S. Eliot ...54 // Agatha Christie ...55 // J. R. R. Tolkien ...55 // Aldous Huxley ...56 // George Orwell ...57 // W.H. Auden ...57 // Dylan Thomas ...58 // Iris Murdoch ...58 // Kingsley Amis ...59 // The Twentieth Century in America ...60 // Edith Wharton ...60 // Willa Gather ...60 // Robert Frost ...61 // Gertrude Stein ...61 // Jack London ...62 // Upton Sinclair ...62 // Eugene O’Neill ...63 // E. E. Cummings ...63 // F. Scott Fitzgerald ...63 // William Faulkner ...64 // Ernest Hemingway ...’ ...64 // John Steinbeck ...67 // Tennessee Williams ...67 // William Burroughs ...68 // Shirley Jackson ...68 // J. D. Salinger ...69 // Ray Bradbury ...69 // Isaac Asimov ...70 // Charles Bukowski ...70 // Jack Kerouac ...70 // Allen Ginsberg ...70 // Sylvia Plath ...71 // Alice Walker ...71 // Kurt Vonnegut Jr ...72 // John Updike ...73 // Summary ...73 // Comprehension ...73 // Vocabulary ...75 // SAMPLES OF LITERTURE ...76 // The Earliest Years // Beowulf ...76 // The Middle Ages // Canterbury Tales ...77 // The Renaissance // The Faerie Queen ...77 // Macbeth ...77 // The Seventeenth Century // Paradise Lost ...78 // Call for the Robin Redbreast ...78 // The Eighteenth Century // Gulliver’s Travels ...79 // Poor Richard’s Almanac ...79 // British Romanticism // Prometheus ...80 //
The Rime of theAncient Mariner ...81 // The Mask of Anarchy ...81 // The Nineteenth Century // A Christmas Carol ...82 // A Red, Red Rose ...82 // Jane Eyre ...82 // Wuthering Heights ...84 // The Raven ...85 // Huckleberry Finn ...87 // Leaves of Grass ...87 // Tess of the D’Urbervilles ...88 // The Nightingale and the Rose ...90 // The Twentieth Century // Heart of Darkness ...92 // The Hobbit ...92 // My Antonia ...93 // may my heart always be open ...94 // Slaughterhouse-Five ...94 // SAMPLE TESTS ...95 // GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS ...105 // BIBLIOGRAPHY ...107