این کتاب برای دانشجویان رشته زبان و ادبیات انگلیسی در مقطع کارشناسی به عنوان منبع اصلی درس «سیری در تاریخ ادبیات انگلیسی (1)» به ارزش 4 واحد تدوین شده است. امید میرود علاوه بر جامعه دانشگاهی، سایر علاقه مندان نیز از آن بهره مند شوند.
گزیده کتاب
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