这是一本英语专业文化、文学教材。本书在突出诗歌、散文和短篇小说的同时，兼顾戏剧和长篇小说等文学形式。主要选读作品将是诗歌、散文和短篇小说，对戏剧和长篇小说中的名篇提供故事梗概等内容，以便让读者对作家和文学流派等有更全面的认识。作品的多样性可以保持读者对英语学习的兴趣。

由于拥有莎士比亚——整个西方文学史上的顶峰——等作家，英国文学在世界文学中占有极为重要的一席。《新编英国文学教程》是为英语专业高年级的学生而编写的，但也可以作为英语水平相当的英语爱好者和文学爱好者的读物。为了便于基础不同的读者欣赏英国文学中的经典作品，除了必要的注释，我们还为难度较大、生词较多的小说、散文等提供了生词表。同时，阅读本教程还将增进读者对西方文化的了解和认识。

Chapter One The Medieval Period

  I. Introduction

  Ⅱ. Geoffrey Chaucer(ca 1343--1400)

  Ⅲ. Selected Writing

Excerpts from the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales

Chapter Two The Elizabethan Age

  I 　 Introduction

 1.1 Renaissance

 1.2 Renaissance in England

  Ⅱ. Francis Bacon (1561--1626)

  Ⅲ. William Shakespeare (1564--1616) 

3.1 Life and Career

3.2 Major Works

  Ⅳ. John Donne(1572--1631)

  Ⅴ. Selected Writings

5.1 An Excerpt from ACT IV of The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

5.2 An Excerpt from Act IT of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

5.3 "Sonnet 18" by William Shakespeare

5.4 "Sonnet 29" by William Shakespeare

5.5 "The Flea" by John Donne

5.6  "The Sun Rising" by John Donne

5.7 "The Canonization" by John Donne

5.8 "Death Be Not Proud" by John Donne

5.9 "Of Studies" by Francis Bacon

5.10 "Of Marriage and Single Life" by Francis Bacon

Chapter Three The Restoration

  I. Introduction ~

1.1 The Restoration

1.2 Literary Characteristics

  Ⅱ. John Milton(1608--1674)

  Ⅲ. John Bunyan (1628--1688)

3.1 Life and Career

3.2 The Pilgrim's Progress (synopsis)

  Ⅳ. Selected Writings

  4.1 Excerpts from Book I of Paradise Lost by John Milton

  4.2 "On His Blindness" by John Milton

  4.3 An Excerpt from Part I of The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

Chapter Four The Enlightenment Period

  I. Introduction

  1.1 Enlightenment Ideas

  1.2 British Literature during the Enlightenment Period

 Ⅱ. Daniel Defoe (1660--1731)

 2.1 Life and Career

 2.2 Robinson Crusoe (synopsis)

 Ⅲ. Jonathan Swift (1667--1745)

 3.1 Life and Career

 3.2 Gulliver's Travels (synopsis) 

 Ⅳ. Joseph Addison (1672--1719)

 Ⅴ. Alexander Pope (1688--1744)

 Ⅵ. Samuel Richardson(1689--1761)

 6.1 Life and Career

 6.2 Clarissa (synopsis)

  Ⅶ. Samuel Johnson(1709--1784)

  Ⅷ. Henry Fielding (1707--1754) 

 8.1 Life and Career

 8.2 The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (synopsis)

  Ⅸ. Selected Writings

 9.1 "A Modest Proposal"by Jonathan Swift

 9.2 "Sir Roger at Church" from The Spectator (July 9,1711) by Joseph Addison

 9.3 An Excerpt from An Essay on Man : Epistle 2 by Alexander Pope

 9.4 "To the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield" by Samuel Johnson

Chapter Five The Romantic Period

  I. Introduction

1.1 Historical Background

1.2 Romanticism

1.3 British Romanticism

 Ⅱ. William Blake(1757--1827)

 Ⅲ. Robert Burns(1759--1796)

 Ⅳ. William Wordsworth(1770--1850)

 Ⅴ. Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772--1834)

 Ⅵ. Walter Scott (1771--1832)

6.1 Life and Career

6.2 Ivanhoe(synopsis)

 Ⅶ. Jane Austen(1775--1817)

7.1 Life and Career

7.2 Pride and Prejudice(synopsis)

 Ⅷ. Charles Lamb(1775--1834)

 Ⅸ. George Gordon Byron(1788--1824)

 Ⅹ. Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792--1822)

 Ⅵ. John Keats(1795--1821)

 Ⅶ. Selected Writings

12.1 "London" by William Blake

12.2 "The Tyger" by William Blake

12.3 "The Chimney Sweeper" by William Blake

12.4 "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns

12.5 "Scots Wha Hae" by Robert Burns

12.6 "A Man's a Man for A' That" by Robert Burns

12.7 "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways" by William Wordsworth

12.8 "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud" by William Wordsworth

12.9 "The Solitary Reaper" by William Wordsworth

12.10 "To the Cuckoo" by William Wordsworth

12.11  "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" by William Wordsworth (86)

12.12 "London, 1802" by William Wordsworth

12.13 "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

12.14 "Dream Children; a Reverie" by Charles Lamb 

12.15 "She Walks in Beauty" by George Gordon Byron

12.16 "The Isles of Greece" (from Canto I , Don Juan)

      by George Gordon Byron

12.17 "Ode to the West Wind" by Percy Bysshe Shelley

12.18 "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley

12.19 "To--" by Percy Bysshe Shelley

12.20 "To a Skylark" by Percy Bysshe Shelley

12.21 "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats

12.22 "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats

12.23 "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" by John Keats

Chapter Six The Victorian Age

  I. Introduction

 1.1 Historical Background

 1.2 Literary Characteristics

  Ⅱ. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809--1892)

  Ⅲ. Robert Browning (1812--1889)

  IV. Charles Dickens (1812--1870)

 4.1 Life and Career 

 4.2 Great Expectations (synopsis) 

  Ⅴ. The Bronti~ Sisters

 5.1 Life and Career

 5.2 Wuthering Heights (synopsis)

 5.3 Jane Eyre (synopsis)

  Ⅵ. George Eliot (1819--1880)

 6.1 Life and Career

 6.2 Middlemarch (synopsis)

  Ⅶ. Thomas Hardy (1840 1928)

 7. 1 Life and Career

 7.2 Tess of the D'Urbervilles (synopsis)

  Ⅷ. George Bernard Shaw (1856--1950)

 8.1 Life and Career

 8.2 Mrs. Warren ~ s Profession (synopsis)

  IX. Selected Writings

 9.1 "Ulysses"by Alfred Tennyson

 9.2 "Break, Break, Break"by Alfred Tennyson

 9.3 "My Last Duchess"by Robert Browning

 9.4 "Home Thoughts, from the Sea"by Robert Browning

 9.5 An Excerpt from Chapter 3 of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

 9.6 "Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell"by Charlotte Bront

Chapter Seven The Twentieth Century

 I. Modernism .

 1.1 Social Background

 1.2 Modernism

 1.3 Literary Characteristics 

  Ⅱ. Joseph Conrad (1857--1924)

 2.1 Life and Career

 2.2 Heart of Darkness (synopsis)

  Ⅲ. William Butler Yeats (1865--1939) 

  Ⅳ. E. M. Forster (1879--1970)

 4.1 Life and Career

 4.2 A Passage to India (synopsis)

  Ⅴ. James Joyce (1882--1941)

 5.1 Life and Career 

 5.2 Ulysses (synopsis)

 Ⅵ. Virginia Woolf (1882--1941)

 6.1 Life and Career

 6.2 To the Lighthouse(synopsis) 

 Ⅶ. D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930)

 7.1 Life and Career

 7.2 Sons and Lovers (synopsis)

 Ⅷ. T. S. Eliot (1888 1965)

 IX. Samuel Barclay Beckett(1906 1989)

  X. Wystan Hugh Auden (1907--1973)

  XI. Selected Writings

 11.1 "Down by the Salley Gardens" by W. B. Yeats

 11.2 "Leda and the Swan"by W. B. Yeats

 11.3 "Sailing to Byzantium" by W. B. Yeats

 11.4 "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats

 11.5 "My Wood"by E. M. Forster

 11.6 "Araby"by James Joyce

 11.7 "Dorothy Wordsworth" by Virginia Woolf

 11.8 "The Mark on the Wall" by Virginia Woolf

 11.9 "Tickets, Please" by D. H. Lawrence

 11.10 "The Hollow Men" by T. S. Eliot

 11.11 An Excerpt from Act One of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

 11.12 "Who's Who" by W. H. Auden

 11.13 "Their Lonely Betters" by W. H. Auden

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