本书是作者从英国文学作品中选编的一套适合我国具有较高英语水平的人阅读使用的书籍。尽可能遴选了文学史上的重要作家和重要作品。选文具有代表性，是广大英语爱好者及具有一定程度的英语自学者和英美文学爱好者进修的理想读物。

William Wordsworth

 Earth Has Not Anything to Show More Fair

 The Solitary Reaper 

 The Daffodils

 Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey (Excerpts)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 Kubla Khan

George Noel Gordon Byron

 Song for the Luddites

 Sonnet on Chillon

 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto III, Stanzas 18-25)

 Don Juan

Canto III, The Isles of Greece

Canto IX, Stanzas 1 -- 9

Canto XI, Stanzas 9 --11

Canto XII, Stanzas 5 -- 6

Percy Bysshe Shelley

 Song to the Men of England

 The Mask of Anarchy (Stanzas 37-43, 4-51, 65-79, 89-91)

 Liberty

 Ode to the West Wind

 One Word Is Too Often Profaned

John Keats

 On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

 Isabella (Stanzas 14-16)

 Ode to a Nightingale

 Ode on a Grecian Urn

Walter Scott

 The Heart of Midlothian (Chapters 6 & 7)

William Cobbett

 Excerpts from Rural Rides Excerpt from Cottage Economy

 Excerpt from Cobbett's Sermons: On the Rights of the Poor

Jane Austen

 Pride and Prejudice (Chapter I)

William Hazlitt

 On Familiar Style (Excerpt from the essay)

Charles Lamb

 The Superannuated Man

Thomas Hood

 The Song of the Shirt

Ernest Charles Jones

 The Song of the Future

 The Song of the Low

 A Chartist Chorus

 "Organize -- Organize -- Organize"

John Watkins

 Lines on Shell, Killed at Newport

William James Linton

 The Gathering of the People

Gerald Massey

 The Men of "Forty-Eight"

Thomas Frost

 The Secret (Excerpts: Chapters VII & VIII)

An Anonymous Chartist Writer

 The Politics of Poets (No. I)

Charles Dickens

 Dombey and Son (Excerpt: Chapter I)

 A Tale of Two Cities (Excerpt from Book III, Chapter 10)

William Makepeace Thackeray..

 Vanity Fair (Excerpts from Chapters 36 & 37)

Charlotte Bronte

 Jane Eyre (Excerpts from Chapters 5 & 7)

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

 Mary Barton (Excerpts from Chapters 8, 15 & 16)

George Eliot Adam Bede (Chapter 27)

Alfred Tennyson

 Break, Break, Break

 Maud (Excerpt: "Birds in the high Hall-garden")

 Ulysses

 In Memoriam (cxxx)

Robert Browning

 My Last Duchess

 Home Thoughts from Abroad

 A Toccata of Galuppi's

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 The Cry of the Children

Thomas Carlyle

 Past and Present (Book III Chapter XI: Labour)

John Ruskin

 The Stones of Venice (Vol. II, Chapter 4: St. Mark's)

Matthew Arnold

 Shakespeare

Arthur Hugh Clough

 Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth

William Morris

 The Earthly Paradise

An Apology

 Chants for Socialists

The Day Is Coming

No Master

 The Pilgrims of Hope

V. New Birth

XI. A Glimpse of the Coming Day

Algernon Charles Swinburne

 Cot Cordium

 A Child's Laughter

Thomas Hardy

 Tess of the D'Urbervilles

(Excerpts from Chapters 42 & 43) In Time of "The Breaking of Nations"

 Afterwards

Oscar Wilde

 An Ideal Husband (Excerpt from Act I)

Appendix Ⅰ Biographical Sketches

Appendix Ⅱ A List of Books from Which the Texts in This Anthology Are Taken