为满足广大英语爱好者和大学英语专业学生学习英国文学的需要，特编写了这本教材。该教材编选的原则是英国文学中的名篇佳作，所选篇幅尽量短些，以便多选几部作品。作品按照时间顺序排列，结构安排为：a.作者简介；b.作品题解；c.选文；d.注释；e.思考题。题解力求简明，注释力求准确详尽，减少读者在理解上的困难，思考题供都是和学生参考。

I Middle English Literature 

 Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-- 1400) : THE CANTERBURY

 TALES 

II Renaissance Literature 

 Edmund Spenser (1552--1599):THE FAERIE

 QUEENE 

 Christopher Marlowe (1564-- 1593) : THE PASSIONATE

 SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE; DOCTOR FAUSTUS 

 William Shakespeare (1564--1616) :SONNET 18;THE

 MERCHANT OF VENICE;HAMLET 

III Early 17th Century Literature 

 Francis Bacon (1561--1626):OF STUDIES; OF BEAUTY

 John Donne (1572--1631) :A VALEDICTION:FOR-

 BIDDING MOURNING; DEATH BE NOT PROUD 

 Ben Jonson (1573--1637) :SONG TO CELIA 

IV Restoration Literature 

 John Milton (1608--1674) :PARADISE LOST 

 John Bunyan (1628--1688): PILGRIM'S PROGRESS

 John Dryden (1631--1700) :AN ESSAY OF DRAMATIC

 POESY 7

V Rise of the Novel in the Early 18th Century 

 Daniel Defoe (1660--1731):ROBINSON CRUSOE 

 Henry Fielding (1707--1754) :TOM JONES 

VI Augustan Literature 

 Alexander Pope (1688--1744):AN ESSAY ON CRITI-

 CISM ; AN ESSAY ON MAN 

 Samuel Johnson (1709--1784) : THE PREFACE

 TO SHAKESPEARE 

 Thomas Gray (1716--1771) : ELEGY WRITTEN

 IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD 

 Richard Sheridan (1751--1816): THE SCHOOL FOR

 SCANDAL 

VI Romanticism (1) 

 William Blake (1757--1827) : THE LAMB; THE TYGER

 Robert Burns (1759--1796) : SCOTS, WHA HAE;

 A RED, RED ROSE 

 William Wordsworth (1770--1850) : PREFACE TO

 LYRICAL BALLADS; COMPOSED UPON

  WESTMINSTER BRIDGE; THE SOLITARY REAPER；

 I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD 

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772--1834). KUBLA KHAN

VIII Early 19th Century Novel 

 Walter Scott (1771--1832) : THE HEART OF

  MIDLOTHIAN 

 Jane Austen (1775--1817): PRIDE AND PREJUDICE                                                     ~ (1

IX Early 19th Century Prose 

  Charles Lamb (1775--1834): OLD CHINA 

  Thomas de Quincey (1785--1859): ON THE KNOCK-

  ING AT THE GATE IN MACBETH 

X Romanticism (2) 

  George Gordon Byron (1788--1824): SHE WALKS IN

  BEAUTY； DON JUAN 

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792--1822) : TO-- ; ODE TO

  THE WEST WIND ；

 John Keats (1795--1821) : ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE

XI Victorian Novel ；

  Emily BrontE (1818-- 1848) : WUTHERING HEIGHTS；

  Charles Dickens (1812-- 1870) : DAVID COPPERFIELD

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1811--1863).

  VANITY FAIR (262

XII   Victorian Poetry 

  Alfred Tennyson (1809--1892): BREAK, BREAK,

  BREAK; ULYSSES (280

  Robert Browning (1812--1889): MY LAST DUCHESS;

  MEETING AT NIGHT： PARTING AT MORNING (288

  Matthew Arnold (1822--1888) : DOVER BEACH (295

XIII Late 19th Century Prose (300

  Thomas Carlyle (1795--1881)： ON HEROES, HERO-

  WORSHIP AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY (301

  Walter Pater (1839--1894): STUDIES IN THE HISTORY

  OF RENAISSANCE (307

XIV Literature at the Turn of the 20th Century (316

  Thomas Hardy (1840--1928): TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES

  George Bernard Shaw (1856--1950): MRS. WARREN'S

  PROFESSION (328

XV Modernist Literature (Poetry) (344

  William Butler Yeats (1865--1939) ： WHEN YOU ARE

  OLD; NO SECOND TROY; A DEEP-SWORN VOW

  Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888--1965): THE WASTE LAND

XVI Modernist Literature (Novel) 

 Virginia Woolf (1882--1941) : MODERN FICTION

 James Joyce (1882--1941) : ULYSSES 

 David Herbert Lawrence (1885--1930): SONS AND

 LOVERS. 

 Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901--1935): A SCOTS QUAIR

XVII Twentieth Century Poetry 

 Wystan Hugh Auden (1907--1973) : WHO'S WHO;

 THEIR LONELY BETTERS 

 Dylan Thomas (1914--1955) : DO NOT GO GENTLE

 INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT 

 Philip Larkin (1922--1985): CHURCH GOING 

 Ted Hughes (1930--1999): HAWK ROOSTING 

 Seamus Heaney (1939--): DEATH OF A NATURALIST

XVIII Drama in the Second Half of the 20th Century 

 John Osborne(1929--1994) : LOOK BACK IN ANGER

XIX  Novel in the Second Half of the 20th Century (1) 

 William Golding (1911--1994) : LORD OF THE FLIES

 Muriel Spark (1918--) : THE PRIME OF MISS

 JEAN BRODIE 

XX Novel in the Second Half of the 20th Century (2) 

  Antonia Susan Byatt (1936--): POSSESSION:

 A ROMANCE 

 Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932--) : HALF A LIFE

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