《英国文学史及选读》分为两册：第一册涵盖盎格鲁-撒克逊时期至18世纪英国文学，第二册涵盖浪漫主义时期至20世纪英国文学。本书为第一册。
本教材可供高等院校英语专业作为英美文学史和文学作品选读的教学用书或参考书，也可供广大中学英语教师及具有一定程度的英语自学者和英美文学爱好者作为进修读物。

Part I The Middle Ages
Chapter 1 The Anglo-Saxon Period
Beowulf
Chapter 2 The Anglo-Norman Period
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Chapter 3 Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
Chapter 4 Popular Ballads
Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale
Get Up and Bar the Door
Sir Patrick Spens
Part II The Renaissance
Chapter 5 William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince
of Denmark
The Merchant of Venice
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 29
Sonnet 106
Chapter 6 Francis Bacon
Of Truth
Of Studies
Part III The Period of Revolution and Restoration
Chapter 7 John Donne
Song ("Go and catch a falling star")
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Sonnet: Death Be Not Proud
Chapter 8 John Milton
Paradise Lost
On His Blindness
On His Deceased Wife
Chapter 9 John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress
Part IV The Age of Enlightenment
Chapter 10 Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Chapter 11 Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
A Modest Proposal
Chapter 12 Joseph Addison
Sir Roger at Church
Sir Roger at the Assizes
Chapter 13 Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Chapter 14 Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Chapter 15 Oliver Goldsmith
The Vicar of Wakefield
Chapter 16 Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The School for Scandal
Chapter 17 William Blake
London
The Tyger
The Chimney Sweeper
Chapter 18 Robert Burns
My Heart'’s in the Highlands
John Anderson, My Jo
A Red, Red Rose
To a Mouse
Auld Lang Syne