目录 nit One Middle English Historical Background Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1340 -1400) The General Prologue (Excerpt) Unit Two English Ballads Historical Background The Popular Ballads Unit Three English Renaissance Historical Background William Shakespeare ( 1564 - 1616) Unit Four The 17th Century English Literature Historical Background John Donne ( 1572 - 1631 ) John Milton ( 1608 - 1674) Unit Five English Literature of the Restoration Period Historical Background Daniel Defoe ( 1661 - 1731 ) Jonathan Swift ( 1667 - 1745 ) Unit Six The Age of Romanticism Historical Background Robert Burns ( 1759 - 1796) William Blake ( 1757 - 1827 ) William Wordsworth ( 1770 - 1850) Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 1772 - 1834 ) …… Unit Seven The Victorian Age Unit Eight The 20th Century English Literature References