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Part 1 British Literature Literary Background Information Unit 1 Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400) The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue Unit 2 William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Hamlet Sonnet 18 Unit 3 Daniel Defoe (c. 1660-1731 ) The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Unit 4 Romantic Poets A Red, Red Rose I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud She Walks in Beauty Unit 5 Jane Austen (1775-1817) Pride and Prejudice Unit 6 Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) Jane Eyre Unit 7 Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Great Expectations Unit 8 Victorian Poets The Eagle My Last Duchess Unit 9 Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) Tess of the D'Urbervilles Unit 10 George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Pygmalion Unit 11 James Joyce (1882-1941) Araby Unit 12 Doris Lessing (1919-2013) A Woman on a Roof Unit 13 20th-Century British Poets Unit 14 Kazuo Ishiguro(1954- ) The Remains of the Day Part 2 American Literature Literary Background information Unit 15 Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) The Cask of Amontillado To Helen Unit 16 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) The Scarlet Letter Unit 17 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Self-Reliance Unit 18 19th-Century American Poets One's Serf I Sing O Captain ! My Captain ! Because I Could Not Stop for Death Success Is Counted Sweetest Unit 19 Mark Twain (1835-1910) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Unit 20 Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)