《英美文学简史及名篇选读》教材以英美文学史为主线，简明扼要地介绍英美文学发展史和重点作家作品，精选经典作品或片段选读。《英美文学简史及名篇选读》共分12章，每章包括背景介绍、重点作家作品概览、名篇选读、注释、文本思考题、章节练习等。背景介绍中包括主要文学思潮、文学运动、代表作家、文学术语等，时间跨度从英国的中古文学和美国的独立时期到21世纪。名篇选读包括经典的小说节选、诗歌、戏剧节选、短篇小说、散文。

PART Ⅰ ENGLISH LITERATURE
CHAPTER Ⅰ English Literature in the Old and Middle Ages
General Introduction
Beo wulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
The Canterbury Tales
English Ballads
Get Up and Bar the Door
Exercises of CHAPTER I
CHAPTER Ⅱ English Literature in the Renaissance Period
General Introduction
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Hamlet
Sonnet
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Of Studies
Exercises of CHAPTER II
CHAPTER Ⅲ English Literature ：in the Seventeenth Century
General Introduction
John Donne (1572>- 1631)
The Flea
Death， Be Not Proud
John Milton (1608-1674)
Paradise Lost
John Bunyan (1628-1688)
The Pilgrims Progress
Exercises of CHAPTER IH
CHAPTER Ⅳ English Literature in the Eighteenth Century
General Introduction
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
Robinson Crusoe
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
A Modest Proposal
Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
The History of Tomjones， a Foundling
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
Etegy Written in a Country Churchyard
William Blake (1757-1827)
The Chimney Sweeper
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
A Red， REd Rose
My Hearts in the Higblands
Exercises of CHAPTER Ⅳ
CHAPTER Ⅴ English Literature in Romantic Age
General Introduction
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
She Dwett Among the Untrodden Ways
The Solitary Reaper
I WanderedLonely as a Cloud
George Gordon Lord Byron (1788-1824)
She Walks in Beauty
Don Juan
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Ode to the West Wind
John Keats (1795-1821)
Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Ivanhoe
PART Ⅱ
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