Part One　Old and Middle English Period 1. Beowulf ……………………………………………………………… 1 Beowulf ……………………………………………………………………………2 2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ………………………………… 7 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight …………………………………………………8 3. Geoff rey Chaucer ……………………………………………………13 The Canterbury Tales …………………………………………………………… 15 4. Popular Ballads ………………………………………………………22 Get up and Bar the Door ……………………………………………………… 23 The Three Ravens ……………………………………………………………… 26 Sir Patrick Spens ……………………………………………………………… 27 Part Two　The English Renaissance 5. Edmund Spenser ……………………………………………………32 Sonnet 75 ……………………………………………………………………… 33 6. Christopher Marlowe ………………………………………………36 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love ………………………………………… 37 7. William Shakespeare ………………………………………………40 Sonnet 18 ……………………………………………………………………… 40 Hamlet ………………………………………………………………………… 42 8. Francis Bacon ………………………………………………………46 Of Studies ……………………………………………………………………… 47 Part Three　The Seventeenth Century 9. John Donne …………………………………………………………52 Death, Be Not Proud …………………………………………………………… 53 10. John Milton …………………………………………………………56 To Mr. Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness ………………………………… 57 Areopagitica …………………………………………………………………… 59 11. John Bunyan ………………………………………………………62 The Pilgrim’s Progress ………………………………………………………… 63 Part Four　The Eighteenth Century 12. Daniel Defoe …………………………………………………………68 Robinson Crusoe ……………………………………………………………… 69 13. Jonathan Swift ………………………………………………………76 A Modest Proposal …………………………………………………………… 78 14. Samuel Johnson ……………………………………………………89 Samuel Johnson’s Letter to Lord Chesterfi eld ………………………………… 91 15. Thomas Gray ………………………………………………………95 The Epitaph …………………………………………………………………… 96 16. William Blake ………………………………………………………99 Laughing Song …………………………………………………………………100 The Chimney Sweeper …………………………………………………………101 The Chimney Sweeper …………………………………………………………102 17. Robert Burns …………………………………………………… 105 A Man’s a Man for A’ That ……………………………………………………106 Scots Wha Hae …………………………………………………………………109 A Red, Red Rose ………………………………………………………………111 Part Five　The Romantic Period 18. William Wordsworth …………………………………………… 114 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud …………………………………………………115 Michael: A Pastoral Poem ……………………………………………………117 19. George Gordon Byron ………………………………………… 125 Sonnet on Chillon ……………………………………………………………127 She Walks in Beauty …………………………………………………………128 20. Percy Bysshe Shelley …………………………………………… 130 Ode to the West Wind …………………………………………………………131 21. John Keats ……………………………………………………… 135 On the Grasshopper and Cricket ………………………………………………136 To Autumn ……………………………………………………………………138 22. Jane Austen ……………………………………………………… 142 Pride and Prejudice ……………………………………………………………143 Part Six　The Victorian Literature 23. Charles Dickens ………………………………………………… 148 David Copperfi eld ……………………………………………………………149 24. William Makepeace Thackeray ………………………………… 158 Vanity Fair ……………………………………………………………………159 25. Matthew Arnold ………………………………………………… 170 Dover Beach……………………………………………………………………171 26. Charlotte Bront? ………………………………………………… 176 Jane Eyre ………………………………………………………………………177 27. Emily Bront? …………………………………………………… 184 Wuthering Heights ……………………………………………………………185 28. Alfred Tennyson ………………………………………………… 195 Break, Break, Break ……………………………………………………………196 Crossing the Bar ………………………………………………………………197 29. Robert Browning ………………………………………………… 200 My Last Duchess ………………………………………………………………201 30. Oscar Wilde ……………………………………………………… 204 The Happy Prince ……………………………………………………………205 31.Thomas Hardy …………………………………………………… 216 Afterwards ……………………………………………………………………217 Jude the Obscure ………………………………………………………………219 Part Seven　The Twentieth Century 32. William Butler Yeats …………………………………………… 229 The Lake Isle of Innisfree ……………………………………………………230 When You are Old ……………………………………………………………232 The Second Coming ……………………………………………………………233 33. John Galsworthy ………………………………………………… 236 Told by the Schoolmaster ………………………………………………………237 34. D. H. Lawrence ………………………………………………… 246 The Rocking Horse Winner …………………………………………………248 35. James Joyce ……………………………………………………… 265 Ulysses …………………………………………………………………………267 36. William S. Maugham …………………………………………… 270 Home …………………………………………………………………………271