《高等学校英语专业系列教材：英国文学教程（上）（第2版）》是一本用英语撰写、文学史与文学作品选读相结合的高校英语专业本科生教材。
《高等学校英语专业系列教材：英国文学教程（上）（第2版）》文学史部分着重介绍、评价英国文学各个历史断代的主要历史背景、文学思潮、文学流派以及重要作家的文学生涯、创作思想、艺术特色及其代表作品的主题、人物、结构、语言等；文学作品部分选择了英国文学史上各个时期主要作家的代表作品，包括诗歌、戏剧、小说、散文等各种体裁，并对语言难点作了较为详细的注释。
Part Ⅰ The Old and Medieval English Literature (449-1485)
Chapter 1 The Anglo-Saxon Period (449-1066)
Ⅰ.Historical Background
Ⅱ.Old English Poetry
2.1 The Religious Croup
2.2 The Secular Group
2.3 Caedmon, the "Father of English Song
2.4 Beowulf
2.5 Artistic Features of Old English Poetry
Ⅲ.Old English Prose
3.1 The Venerable Bede (ca.673-735)
3.2 Alfred the Creat (849-899)
3.3 Aelfric (ca.955-1025)
Ⅳ.Selected Readings
4.1 Beowulfs Fight with Grendel
4.2 Beowulfs Fight with the Fire Breathing Dragon
Chapter 2 The Medieval Period (1066-ca.1485)
Ⅰ.Historical Background
1.1 The Nonnan Conquest
1.2 The Consequence of the Conquest
Ⅱ.The Medieval English Literature
2.1 A Brief Survey
2.2 Medieval Romance
2.3 Geoffrey of Monmouth (ca.1100-ca.1155)
2.4 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2.5 William Langland (1330-1400)
2.6 John Gower (1330-1408)
2.7 The Popular Ballads
2.8 Sir Thomas Mallory (ca.1405-1471)
2.9 The Early Scottish Poetry
Ⅲ.Selected Readings
3.1 An Excerpt from S/r Gawain, and the Creen Knight*
3.2 "The Wife of Usher's Well"
3.3 "Sir Patrick Spens"
3.4 "Get Up and Bar the Dcx)r"
3.5 An Fxcerpt from Book One of Le Morte d'Arthur
Chapter 3 Geoffrey Chaucer (ca.1343-1400)
Ⅰ.Life and Career
Ⅱ.Religious and Philosophical Attitude
Ⅲ.Artistic Features
3.1 Messenger of Humanism
3.2 Realistic Writer
3.3 "Father" of English Poetry
3.4 Master of the English Language
Ⅳ.Major Works
4.1 Troilus and Criseyde
4.2 The Canterbury Tales
Ⅴ.Selected Readings
5.1 Excerpts from the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales
5.2 The Pardoner's Tale of The Canterbury Tales
Part Ⅱ The Sixteenth-Century English Literatura (ca.1485-1603)
Cbapter 4 Introduction to the Sixteenth Century
Ⅰ.Renaissance
Ⅱ.Renaissance in England
2.1 Historical Changes
2.2 Religious Reformation
2.3 Introduction of the Printing
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Part Ⅲ The seventeenth-century English literature
Part Ⅳ The eighteenth-English literature
Appendix Ⅰ A Brief introduction to the study of literature
Appendix Ⅱ Sample test paper
He contributed to the successive volumes some 200 songs, bothoriginal compositions and adaptations of traditional Scottish ballads and folk songs. Beginning in 1792 Bums wrote about. 100 songs and some humorous verses for Se.lect Collection, of Original Scottish, Airs , compiled by George Thomson. Among his songs in the two eollections are such favorites as "Auld Lang Syne," "Comin' Thro' the Rye," "Scots, Wha Hae," "A Red, Red Rose," "The Banks o' Doon," and "John Anderson, My Jo." In 1788, Burns received a commission as an exciseman （tax inspector）. He gave up farming in 1791, and traveled widely. After the outbreak of the FrenchRevolution, Bums became an outspoken champion of the Republican cause. After Franco-British relations began to deteriorate, he curbed his radical sympathies, and in 1794, for patriotic reasons, he joined the Dumfriesshire Volunteers. Burns died in Dumfries, July 21, 1796.
The importance of Burns' poetry should firstly be evaluated in the Scottish cultural context. Burns owed much to the Scottish oral tradition of folklore and folk song in literary forms, subjects, and poetic diction; he was also much indebted to the highly developed Scottish literary tradition established by Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Cav in Douglas in the golden age of Scottish poetry during the 15th and 16th centuries. As a peasant poet, his personal experience of the harsh country life and his close contact with the simple country folk greatly enriched his understanding of the people, while those joys and sorrows, hopes and dreams that he shared with them deepened his sympathy for the poor. Most of his poems deal with Scotch drink, religion, and manners, suggesting a world often harsh, sordid, lunited but attractive. His fame as a poet mainly rests on those poems written in Scots, a nor them dialect of English spoken by Scottish peasants. He had also tried standard English in his poetry, modeling on the great English men of letters like Addison, Pope and Shakespeare. With the influence of the English tradition, he improved greatly in forms, themes and style of his Scottish predecessors and invested with a new intensity. In writing the original, bucolic Scottish life and revelry, Bums surpassed his predecessors in acquiring the English classic virtues of cleamess and conciseness.
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