A Survey of English Literature (I)

Preface
To the Teacher and the Student
Part I: The Old English Period
Chapter 1. Historical and Linguistic Background of the Old English
Chapter 2. The Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture
Chapter 3. Old English Heroic Poetry
Chapter 4. Old English Elegiac Poetry and Love Poems
Chapter 5. Old English Religious Poetry
Chapter 6. Old English Prose
Part II: The Middle English Period
Chapter 7. The Norman Conquest
Chapter 8. Medieval Thought
Chapter 9. Some Characteristics of Middle English Literature
Chapter 10. The Period of Religious Records (1066-1350)
Chapter 11. The Period of Great Individual Writers (Alliterative Revival)
Chapter 12. The Middle English Romance
Chapter 13. Geoffrey Chaucer
Chapter 14. Fifteenth-Century Chaucerians
Chapter 15. Middle English Prose
Chapter 16. Medieval Drama
Part III: The Renaissance Period
Chapter 17. The Renaissance in England
Chapter 18. The Reformation in England
Chapter 19. Renaissance Sonneteers
Chapter 20. Renaissance Pastoral Poetry
Chapter 21. Elizabethan Romantic Epic
Chapter 22. Ovidian-Mythological Poetry
Chapter 23. Renaissance Literary Criticism and Its Classical Heritage
Chapter 24. English Prose in the Renaissance Period
Chapter 25. Elizabethan Theater
Chapter 26. The Pre-Shakespearean Drama and Dramatists
Chapter 27. William Shakespeare
Chapter 28. Shakespeare's Contemporaries and Post-Shakespearean Dramatists
Part IV: The Seventeenth-Century Poetry
Chapter 29. John Donne and His School
Chapter 30. Ben Jonson and His School
Chapter 31. John Milton
Selected Bibliography
Index