Chpater One The English Renaissance(1500-1625) Intrduction to ethe Background About the Author Willian Shakespeare Selected Reading Sonnet The Merchant of Venice Chapter Two The Seventeenth Century(1625-1700) Introduction to the Background About the Author John Donne Selected Reading A Valediction:Forbiding Mourning Sonner 10 About the Author John Milton Selected Reading Paradise Lost Chapter Three The Eighteenth Century(1700-1798) Introduction to the Bacdground About the Author Daniel Defoe Selected Reading The Life and Strange Surprsing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe About the Author Robert Burns Selected Reading Selected Poems About the Author William Blake Seleced Reading Seleced Poems Chapter Four The Romantic Period(1798-1832) Introduction to the Backgroungd About the Author …… Chapter Five The Vivctorian Age(1832-1901) Chapter Six The Twentieth Century Key References