1.- Introduction.
a.- Course presentation.
2.-Old English: features and literary Works. Beowulf.
a.- Historical context.
b.- Literary context
c.- Authors and works of the Old English period.
d.- Beowulf
3.- Middle English: Features and Literary Works. Sir Gawian and The Green Knight. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.
a.- Historical context.
b.- Literary context.
c.- Sir Gawain and The Green Knight
d.- Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.
4.- Renaissance and Reformation. Sydney and Spencer. Wyatt and Surrey. Shakespeare.
a.- Historical context.
b.- Literary context.
c.- Sydney and Spencer.
d.- Wyatt and Surrey.
e.- Shakespeare
5.- Renaissance English Drama: Marlow, Johnson and Shakespeare.
a.- The beginnings of English drama
b.- Marlow and Johnson
c.- Shakespeare:
6.- Metaphysical poetry:
a.- General features.
b.- John Donne.
c.- George Herbert and Henry Vaughan
7.- Commonwealth and Restoration: Marvell and Milton.
a.- Historical context.
b.- Andrew Marvell
c.- John Milton.
8.- The beginning of the 18th century. Dryden, Swift and Pope.
a.- Historical context.
b.- The satire.
c.- John Dryden and Alexander Pope
d.- Jonathan Swift
9.- The Eighteenth Century: Origins and Development of the Novel. Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Lawrence Sterne.
a.- Literary context. The rise of the novel.
b.- Daniel Defoe
c.- Samuel Richardson
d.- Lawrence Sterne
10.- The Romantic Period: First generation of romantic poets and second generation of romantic poets.
a.- Historical context.
b.- Literary context
c.- First generation of romantic poets: William Blake, Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
d.- Second generation of romantic poets: Shelley, Keats and Lord Byron.
e.- Narrative prose: Emily Brontë