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Objectives: Learn the names of major writers and their representative works Know something about Chaucer’s position in English literature, his life and literary career Master the writing features and significance of The Canterbury Tales ;Textbooks: 1. 刘炳善，河南人民出版社，《英国文学简史》 2. 王守仁, 高等教育出版社,《英国文学选读》 Purpose of this course: Requirement: attendance, reading, homework, discussion, How to study: ;Evaluation: quiz, paper( 1000 words, due on May 10), final exam( including life and writing features of writers, analysis of major works, literary terms, etc.) ;Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Shakespeare: Hamlet, Sonnets Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels Romantic Poets (I) : William Blake, Robert Burns, and William Wordsworth Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice; Romantic Poets (II): Percy Bysshe Shelly, John Keats: odes Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre Charles Dickens: Great Expectation Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles ;George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion William Butler Yeats: James Joyce: “Araby” D. H. Lawrence: “The Rocking-Horse Winner” William Golding: Lord of the Flies John Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman ;Chaucer: (1343—1400) The founder of English realism The founder of English poetry ;He was born in London. He was the son of a wine merchant who had connections with the Court. He began life as a page （侍从） in a nobleman’s household. Then he went to France at 19 on one of the campaigns of the Hundred Years’ War, and was taken prisoner. On his return, he married Philippa, a maid of honor to the queen and relative of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster, who became his patron. ;Several times he was sent to the Continent on diplomatic missions, two of which took him to Italy. His diplomatic missions to Italy enabled him to study the poems of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, famous Italian writers of the Renaissance period, which were later to have profound influence upon his own writing. ;He died in 1400 and was buried in W