英国文学史

the English literature：the middle ages、the English renaissance、the restoration and the eighteenth century、the age of Romanticism……

the English literature

• Part one ：the middle ages中世纪文学
  • The old English Period
  • The middle English Period
  • Middle English Literature
    • The Romances
    • Piers the Plowman
    • Geoffrey Chaucer
      • The Canterbury Tales
    • Popular Ballads
    • The Medival Drama
• Part two ： the English renaissance文艺复兴时期文学
  • Renaissance
  • the beginning of the English Renaissance
    • The Oxford Reformers
    • Thomas More
    • Wyatt and Howard
  • The Elizabethan Age (the age of Shakespeare)
    • Social Conditions
    • Eilzabethan Poetry
      • John Lyly
      • Sir Philip Sidney
      • Edmund Spencer
    • Eilzabethan Drama
      • Influence
      • University Wits and Christopher Marlowe
      • Ben Jonson
    • William Shakespeare
    • Eilzabethan Prose and Francis Bacon
  • the 17 century
    • The Puritan Revolution
    • Great Changes Brought By the Revolution
    • The Metaphysicals and The Cavaliers
    • John Donne
    • John Milton
    • John Bunyan
• Part three : the restoration and the eighteenth century
  • Political Social Cultural Background
    • The 18 Century English
    • Enlightenment and it effect upon English literature
  • Neoclassicism
  • The Rise of the Realistic Novel
    • The Origin of English Novel and Daniel Defoe
    • Samuel Richardson and the first English novel
    • Henery Fielding
    • Tobias Smollett
    • Laurence Sterne
• Part four ：the age of Romanticism浪漫主义文学
  • Romanticism in England
  • Pre--Romanticism
    • Thomas Gray
    • Robert Burns
    • William Blake
  • The First Generation of Romatics
    • William Wordsworth
    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    • Robert Southey
  • The Younger Generation of Romantics
    • George Gordon Byron
    • Percy Bysshe Shelley
    • John Keats
  • Non-- Poetic Literature of the age
    • The Familiar Essay
    • Drama
    • Novel
      • Jane Austen
      • Sir Walter Scott
• Part five ： the victorian age 维多利亚时代文学
• Part six : the Twentieth century 20世纪文学
  • General introduction
    • Social and Political Background
    • Modernism