Preface
Part Ⅰ Early and Medieval English Literature
from BEOWULF translated by Seamus Heaney
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
from The Canterbury Tales
from The General Prologue
THE POPULAR BALLADS
Robin Hood and the Bishop
Sir Patrick Spens
Get Up and Bar the Door
SIR THOMAS MALORY
from Le Morte D'Arthur
Book XXI
Chapter Ⅳ
Chapter Ⅴ

Part Ⅱ The English Renaissance
SIR THOMAS WYATT THE ELDER
The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor
The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsake of（Such as He Sometime Enjoyed）
THE KING JAMES BIBLE OF 1611
The Song of Songs
The Gospel According to Saint Luke（15:11-32）
The First Epistle of Paul The Apostle to the Corinthians（13）
HENRY HOWARD,EARL OF SURREY
The Soote Season
Love,That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
Astrophil and Stella
1（"Loving in truth,and fain in verse my love to show"）
31（"With how sad steps,O Moon,thou climb'st the skies"）
The Nightingale
from The Defense of Poesy
[THE POET,POETRY]
[POETRY,PHILOSOPHY,HISTORY]
THOMAS NASHE
Spring,the Sweet Spring
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
from The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
EDMUND SPENSER
from Amorretti
Sonnet 1 （"Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands"）
Sonnet 75（"One day I wrote her name upon the strand"）
from The Faerie Queene
Booklll
Canto vi
[The Garden of Adonis]
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Songs from the Plays
Who is Silvia? What is she?
Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred?
Blow,Blow,Thou Winter Wind
Sonnets
18（"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"）
29（6iWhen,in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes"）
60（"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore"）
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Part Ⅲ The Period of the English Bourgeois Revolution
Part Ⅳ The Eighteenth Century
Part Ⅴ Romanticism in England
Part Ⅵ English Critical Realism
Part Ⅶ Prose-Writers and Poets of the Mid and Late 19th Century
Part Ⅷ Twentieth Century English Literature
Bibliggraphy