This is an attempt to write a history of English literature admittedly with an innovative approach.The traditional as well as the more modern views in the West on literary movements,schools,traditions and influences in the field of English literature and on individual English authors and their major and minor works are here given due respect and serious consideration,but with the reservation sometimes to differ and occasionally to introduce new and totally contrary judgments from the viewpoint of historical materialism i.e.,the writers and their writings are to be given their proper places in each case in accordance with the roles,healthful or otherwise,that they play in the progress of history,social and literary.Of course,whether or how far have I succeeded in these pages in living up to the theory advanced above awaits judgment from my readers.

Chapter Ⅵ ENGLISH LITERATURE OF EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Section Ⅰ The Historical Background and the Literary Trends in Early 19th-Century England.

 1.The Historical Background: Economic， Political and Ideological.

 2.The Literary Trends: The Romantic Movement in English  Literature as Part of the Romantic Movement in European  Literature; Wordsworth， Coleridge， Byron， Shelley and  Keats; the Prose Fiction of Walter Scott and Jane Austen; the Different Schools of Prose Writers.

Section Ⅱ Romantic Poetry in Early 19th-Century England.

 1.Wordsworth.

 2.Coleridge.

 3.Byron .

 4.Shelley.

 5.Keats.

Section Ⅲ English Prose in Early 19th Century.

 1.Prose Fiction: Walter Scott; Jane Austen.

 2.Significant Writers of Prose in Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries: William Godwin， Paine， Cobbett.

 3.Essayists in Early 19th Century: William Hazlitt， Charles Lamb; Thomas De Quincey.

Chapter Ⅶ ENGLISH LITERATURE OF MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY

Section Ⅰ The Historical Background:Social and Intellectual

Section Ⅱ Chartist Literature.

 1.A General Survey of Chartist Literature: Different Literary Genres， Stages of Development.

 2.Two Major Chartist Poets: Ernest Jones and William James Linton.

 3.Gerald Massey and Minor Chartist Poets.

 4.Chartist Prose Fiction: Thomas Martin Wheeler，Thomas Frost.

Section Ⅲ Democratic Poetry in the Age of Chartism.

 1.Thomas Hood and His “Song of the Shirt”.

 2.Ebenezer Elliott the Corn-Law Rhymer.

 3.Elizabeth Barrett Browning and “The Cry of the Children”.

Section Ⅳ Major Novelists of Critical Realism in the Mid-19th Century.

 1.Charles Dickens.

 2.William Makepeace Thackeray.

 3.Elizabeth Gaskell.

 4.Charlotte Brontё.

 5.Emily Brontё.

 6.George Eliot.

Section Ⅴ Major English Poets of the Mid-19th Century.

 1.Alfred Tennyson.

 2.Robert Browning.

 3.Matthew Arnold and Arthur Hugh Clough.

 4.Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti.

 5.Algernon Charles Swinburne.

 6.Edward Fitzgerald's Translation of the“Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”.

Section Ⅵ Non-Fiction Prose in Mid-19th-Century England.

1.Thomas Carlyle.

2.Thomas Babington Macaulay.

3.John Ruskin.

4.John Henry Newman.

5.John Stuart Mill.

6.Thomas Henry Huxley.

Section Ⅶ　Minor Victorian Novelists: Charles Kingsley，Benjamin Disraeli， Edward Bulwer-Lytton，Charles Reade， Wilkie Collins， Anthony Trollope.

Chapter Ⅷ ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE LAST QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY