Part I The Middle Ages
Chapter1 The Anglo-Saxon Period
Beowulf
Chapter2 The Anglo-Norman Period
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Chapter 3 Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
Chapter 4 Popular Ballads
Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale
Get Up and Bar the Door
Sir Patrick Spens
Part II The Renaissance
Chapter 5 William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
The Merchant of Venice
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 29
Sonnet 106
Chapter 6 Francis Bacon
Of Studies
Part III The Period of Revolution and Restoration
Chapter 7 John Donne
Song
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Death Be Not Proud
Chapter 8 John Milton
Paradise Lost
On His Blindness
On His Deceased Wife
Chapter 9 John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress
Part IV The Age of Enligtenment