Unit 1　Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)

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Text A　The CanterburyTales The General Prologue (An Excerpt)

Text B　The Canterbury Tales The Millers Prologue and Tale (An Excerpt)

Unit 2　Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

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Text A　The Faerie Queene Book I, Canto I (An Exerpt)

Text B　Amoretti

Unit 3　Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

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Text A　Of Studies

Text B　Of Marriage and Single Life

Unit 4　William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

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Text A　HamletAct III, Scene 1, Lines 1-102

Text B　Sonnet 18

Unit 5　John Milton (1608-1674)

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Text A　Paradise LostAn Excerpt of Book 1 (1674 version)

Text B　When I Consider How My Light Is Spent

Unit 6　Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)

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Text A　Robinson CrusoeChapter IX　A Boat

Text B　Robinson CrusoeAn Excerpt from Chapter XIV

Unit 7　Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

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Text A　Gullivers TravelsPart I　A Voyage to LilliputChapter I

Text B　
Gullivers TravelsPart Four: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
Chapter VII

Unit 8　William Blake (1757-1827)

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Text A　London

Text B　The Tyger

Unit 9　William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

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Text A　I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Text B　The Solitary Reaper

Unit 10　Jane Austen (1775-1817)

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Text A　Pride and PrejudiceChapter I

Text B　Sense and SensibilityChapter I

Unit 11　Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

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Text A　Ode to the West WindⅠ

Text B　To a Skylark

Unit 12　John Keats (1795-1821)

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Text A　Ode to a Nightingale

Text B　Ode on a Grecian Urn

Unit 13　Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

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Text A　David CopperfieldChapter II am Born

Text B　Oliver Twist orThe Parish Boys ProgressChapter I

Unit 14　Charlotte Bront(1816-1855)

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Text A　Jane EyerAn AutobiographyChapter I 169

Text B　Jane EyerAn AutobiographyChapter XXIII

Unit 15　Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

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Text A　Tess of the dUrbervillesA Pure WomanChapter V

Text B　Tess of the dUrbervillesA Pure WomanChapter LVIII

Unit 16　Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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Text A　
The Importance of Being EarnestA Trivial Comedy for Serious PeopleAct I (Excerpts)

Text B　
The Importance of Being EarnestA Trivial Comedy for Serious PeopleAct I (Excerpt)