Part I The Middle Ages...............................1Chapter1 The Anglo-Saxon Period........................2Beowulf.................................................3Chapter2 The Anglo-Norman Period.....................15Sir Gawain and the Green Knight........................16Chapter 3 Geoffrey Chaucer............................35The Canterbury Tales...................................36Chapter 4 Popular Ballads.........................44Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale.........................45Get Up and Bar the Door................................51Sir Patrick Spens......................................53Part II The Renaissance.............................57Chapter 5 William Shakespeare..........................61The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark...............64The Merchant of Venice.................................79Sonnet 18.............................................100Sonnet 29.............................................101Sonnet 106............................................102Chapter 6 Francis Bacon ..............................105Of Studies ...........................................107Part III The Period of Revolution and Restoration ....111Chapter 7 John Donne .................................114Song .................................................116A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning ...................117Death Be Not Proud ...................................119Chapter 8 John Milton ................................120Paradise Lost ........................................122On His Blindness .....................................127On His Deceased Wife .................................128Chapter 9 John Bunyan ................................130The Pilgrim’s Progress ..............................132Part IV The Age of Enligtenment ......................141<