上篇介绍了英国文学的发源、文艺复兴时期、新经典主义时期、浪漫主义时期、维多利亚时期和现代时期的重要历史事件、重要人物、风格、流派。下篇主要是美国文学的起源以及三个时期的重要历史事件、重要人物、风格、流派以及与英国文学的关系。

PART ONE: ENGLISH LITERATURE

An Introduction to Old and Medieval English Literature

Chapter 1 The Renaissance Period

I. Edmund Spenser

II. Christopher Marlowe

III. William Shakespeare

IV. Francis Bacon

V. John Donne

VI. John Milton

Chapter 2 The Neoclassical Period

I. John Bunyan

II. Alexander Pope

III. Daniel Defoe

IV. Jonathan Swift

V. Henry Fielding

VI. Samuel Johnson

VII. Richard Brinstey Sheridan

VIII. Thomas Gray

Chapter 3 The Romantic Period

.I. William Blake

II. William Wordsworth

III. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

IV. George Gordon Byron

V. Percy Bysshe Shelley

VI. John Keats

VII. Jane Austen

Chapter 4 The Victorian Period

I. Charles Dickens

II. The Bronte Sisters

III. Alfred Tennyson

IV. Robert Browning

V. George Eliot

VI. Thomas Hardy

Chapter 5 The Modern Period

I. George Bernard Shaw

II. John Galsworthy

III. William Butler Yeats

IV. T.S. Eliot

V. D.H. Lawrence

VI. James Joyce

PART TWO: AMERICAN LITERATURE

Chapter 1 The Romantic Period

I. Washington Irving

II. Ralph Waldo Emerson…