这部选读主要作为英语专业学生修习英国文学史的伴随读物，其目的有二：一是提供英国文学史上一些有名的篇章，让学生对照英国文学史的教材或课堂讲授，起尝鼎一脔的作用；二是通过学习选文，学生可以提高对于英国文学语言的理解与欣赏，从而进一步养成对英语的敏感性。

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales

Popular Ballads

Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale

The Babes in the Wood

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice

Hamlet

Sonnet 18

Sonnet 29

Francis Bacon

Of Studies

Of Wisdom for a Man's Self

John Milton

Paradise Lost

On His Blindness

John Bunyan

The Pilgrim's Progress

Joseph Addison

Adventures of a Shilling

Richard Steele

The Spectator Club

Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe

Joonathan Swift

 Gulliver's Travels

Alexander Pope

 An Essay on Criticism

Henry Fielding

 The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Samuel Johnson

 Letter to Lord Chesterfield

Oliver Goldsmith

 The Vicar of Wakefield

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

 The School for Scandal

William Blake

 London

 The Tyger

Robert Burns

 A Man's A Man For A' That

 Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn

A Red, Red Rose

William Wordsworth

She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways

To the Cuckoo

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

The Solitary Reaper

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Kubla Khan

Walter Scott

Ivanhoe

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Charles Lamb

Dream Children; a Reverie

William Hazlitt

On Familiar Style

George Gordon Byron

The Isles of Greece

She Walks in Beauty

Percy Byssbe Shelley

Ode to the West Wind

To a Skylark

John Keats

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

Ode to a Nightingale

Thomas Hood

The Song of the Shirt

Ernest Jones

The Song of the Lower Classes

The Song of the Future

Alfred Tennyson

The Eagle

Ulysses

Break, Break, Break

Robert Browning

Home Thoughts, from Abroad

Prospice

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

 David Copperfield

William Makepeace Thackeray

 Vanity Fair ~

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskeli

Mary Barton

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights

George Eliot

Silas Marner

Thomas Carlyle

Heroes and Hero-Worship

John Ruskin

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