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Overview of British Literature
Overview of British Literature
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Book Introduction
This book helps you understand English literature.
English literature includes Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Andrew Marvel, John Milton, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Shelley, DH
It has produced countless excellent writers from each era, including Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce.
Through an exploration of the language used in their works—rhetorical techniques, symbolism, metaphors, contrasts, logic, and the linguistic descriptions that constitute the core themes—we can learn about the author's thoughts and artistic techniques embedded in language.
Above all, the works of these great writers contain a profound understanding of life.
Through these wonderful works of English literature, we will reflect on ourselves living in the modern world, receive spiritual stimulation, and attain a deeper understanding of life.
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index
preface

01 Ancient English Literature

1-1.
Overview of the era
1-2.
Introduction to Beowulf
1-3.
Beowulf (Prelude, Episode I)
1-4.
The Ruin
1-5.
The Wanderer

02 Medieval English Literature

2-1.
Overview of the era
2-2.
Introduction to The Canterbury Tales
2-3.
The Canterbury Tales
-Geoffrey Chaucer (1343~1400)
2-4.
Introduction to "The Vision of Piers Plowman"
2-5.
The Vision of Piers Plowman
-William Langland

03 16th Century Renaissance English Literature

3-1.
Overview of the era
3-2.
Major authors and works
3-3.
Types and Forms of Sonnet
3-4.
Shakespeare's Sonnets
3-5.
Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1 (Hamlet's Soliloquy)
3-6.
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
3-7.
The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
Faustus
-Christopher Marlowe (1604)

04 17th-Century English Literature (1603–1660)

4-1.
Overview of the era
4-2.
Major authors
4-3.
Paradise Lost-John Milton
4-4.
The Sunrising-John Donne
4-5.
The Canonization-John Donne
4-6.
Holy Sonnets. XIV-John Donne
4-7.
The Altar-George Herbert
4-8.
Easter wings-George Herbert
4-9.
To his shy lover To his Coy Mistress-Andrew Marvell

05 Restoration and 18th-century Neoclassical English Literature (1660–1789)

5-1.
Overview of the era
5-2.
Major authors
5-3.
Essay on Man-Alexander Pope
5-4.
Robinson Crusoe (1719)
5-5.
『Pamela』 Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740)
5-6.
A Foundling: Tom Jones
5-7.
The Life and Opinion of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760–1767)

06 Romantic Era (1789–1830)

6-1.
Overview of the era
6-2.
Romantic poets
6-3.
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
-William Wordsworth (1800)
6-4.
Biographia Literaria (1817)
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
6-5.
The Lamb-William Blake
6-6.
The Tyger-William Blake
6-7.
The Chimney-Sweeper 1 The Chimney-Sweeper-William Blake
6-8.
The Chimney-Sweeper II-William Blake
6-9.
To a Skylark-William Wordsworth
6-10.
Daffodils - William Wordsworth
6-11.
Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
above Tintern Abbey-William Wordsworth
6-12.
Kubla Khan-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
6-13.
Frost at Midnight-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
6-14.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
6-15.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
-John Keats
6-16.
To Autumn -John Keas
6-17.
Ode to the West Wind -Percy Bysshe Shelley
6-18.
She Walks in Beauty
- George Gordon Byron
6-19.
The First Kiss of Love
-George Gordon Byron
6-20.
Waverey (1814) - Walter Scott
6-21.
Pride and Prejudice (1813) - Jane Austen

07 Victorian English Literature (1830–1900)

7-1.
Overview of the era
7-2.
Major authors
7-3.
My last Duchess-Robert Browning
7-4.
Break, break, break
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
7-5.
Tears, idle tears
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
7-6.
Ulysses Ulysses - Alfred Lord Tennysonn
7-8.
Spring-Gerard Manley Hopkins
7-9.
God's Grandeur-Gerard Manley Hopkins
7-10.
Kestrel The Windhover-Gerard Manley Hopkins
7-11.
Wuthering Heights (1847)
7-12.
Jane Eyre (1847)
7-13.
Adam Bede (1859)
7-14 Great Expectations (1860-1861)
-Charles Dickens
7-15.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
-Thomas Hardy
7-16.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
-Oscar Wilde

08 20th Century English Literature

8-1.
Overview of the era
8-2.
Major authors
8-3 J.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Alfred Prufrock
-T.
S. Eliot
8-4.
The Waste Land -T.
S. Eliot
8-5.
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
-William Butler Yeats
8-6.
Easter 1916 - William Butler Yeats
8-7.
Sons and Lovers (1913)-D.
H. Lawrence
8-8.
Mrs. Delaway
Dalloway (1925) - Virginia Woolf
8-9.
Dubliners (1914)

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GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: August 20, 2025
- Page count, weight, size: 398 pages | 153*225*19mm
- ISBN13: 9791169193450

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