Part One Early and Medieval English Literature (449-1485) Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales Part Two The Sixteenth Century (1485--1603) William Shakespeare Hamlet The Merchant of Venice Sonnet 18 Sonnet 29 Francis Bacon Of Studies Part Three The Seventeenth Century (1603--1700) John Donne Song A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning George Herbert Virtue Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress John Milton Paradise Lost Sonnet: On His Blindness Sonnet: On His Deceased Wife John Dryden An Excerpt from An Essay of Dramatic Poesy Part Four The Eighteenth Century (1700---1798) Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard William Blake London The Tyger The Chimney Sweeper The Chimney Sweeper Robert Burns My Heart's in the Highlands A Red, Red Rose Part Five The English Romanticism (1798--1832) William Wordsworth She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud The Solitary Reaper George Gordon Byron Sonnet on Chillon When We Two Are Parted She Walks in Beauty Percy Bysshe Shelley Song to the Men of England Ode to the West Wind …… Part Six The Victorian Age(1832-1900) Part Seven The Twentieth(1901-1990s) References