本书为南开英美文学精品教材之一，为全英文读物，是英美文学研究专家常耀信先生为广大读者奉献的又一力作。可满足学生学习与考研、教师授课与科研，以及一般性大众阅读等多种需要；它不仅在章节中设置了详细讨论题目，而且在书后配有“注释与参考资料”，列出重点研究成果问世情况，方便查索，有助于构思研究课题。可供本科生了解英国文学发展概貌与基本知识；供研究生精细研读，并助其设计学期论文作业或硕、博士毕业论文题目：供教师提炼教案、讲义；为中青年学者提供深层学术探索参考课题。

Foreword /i

Chapter 1 The Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period ·Beowulf ·The Middle English Period /1

Chapter 2 Chaucer ·The Pre Elizabethan Period ·More /14

Chapter 3 The Elizabethan Age ·Spenser ·Sidney ·Marlowe /35

Chapter 4 Shakespeare ·Bacon ·Jonson ·King James' Bible /51

Chapter 5 The 17th Century ·Donne ·Milton ·Dryden ·Bunyan ·The Restoration Theater /72

Chapter 6 The Classic Age ·Pope ·Johnson ·Gray ·Goldsmith ·Sheridan /97

Chapter 7 Movement toward Romanticism ·Thomson ·Young ·Cowper, Crabbe ·Blake ·Bums /123

Chapter 8 18th-Century Fiction ·Swift ·Defoe ·Richardson ·Fielding ·Sterne ·Smollett /137

Chapter 9 The Romantic Period ·Wordsworth ·Coleridge ·Scott ·Austen /164

Chapter 10 Byron ·Shelley ·Keats /196

Chapter 11 The Victorian Period ·Victorian Prose ·Carlyle ·Mill ·Newman /216

Chapter 12 Victorian Fiction ·Dickens ·Thackeray /228

Chapter 13 Charlotte and Emily Bronte ·Meredith /249

Chapter 14 George Eliot ·Trollope ·Butler /262

Chapter 15 Hardy ·Gissing ·Moore ·Wilde ·Stevenson /285

Chapter 16 Victorian Poetry ·Tennyson ·Browning ·Arnold /308

Chapter 17 Clough ·Hopkins ·Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat ·The Aesthetic Movement /330

Chapter 18 Victorian Drama ·Shaw ·Wilde /343

Chapter 19 The Early 20th Century ·The Edwardians ·The Georgians ·The War Poets /354

Chapter 20 The 1920s ·Woolf ·Joyce 1376

Chapter 21 Lawrence ·Yeats ·Imagism ·T. S. Eliot /406

Chapter 22 Poetry of the 1930s ·Auden ·The Audenic Group ·Thomas ·Empson /433

Chapter 23 Fiction of the 1930s ·Huxley ·OrweU ·Waugh ·Greene ·Isherwood /452

Chapter 24 Postwar Poetry /466

Chapter 25 Postwar Fiction /493

Chapter 26 Postwar Drama /516

Notes and References /531

Index /556