本书分上、下两册,由7个部分组成,共44单元。每一部分首先介绍了学习要点和背景知识,然后是分单元讲解的作家作品。学习要点由关键词组成,放在各部分前面,明确教学目标,提示学习重点,在正文中出现时都以黑体标记。这也有利于在学习中加深印象,以及对相关参考书目的选择。背景知识主要介绍与作家作品相关的文学思潮,及其生成的社会、历史、文化背景,以及不同文学体裁的转换原因和新特点,还有对代表性作家作品的概述。
每一单元(1—3单位除外)以作家为标题,主要内容是作家介绍与作品选读,以及注释、评论要点、问题思考、课堂活动和作家名言等。
本书是供高等学校英语专业学生使用的英国文学教材,涵盖了从Anglo-Saxon时期到20世纪的主要作家作品。全书分上、下两册,共44个单元,可供一个学年使用。本书具有以下特点:
在介绍作家和文学作品的同时,巧妙地融合了文学史的内容,体系更完整。
将文学批评方法和理论热点融入到每一单元,帮助学生提高文学欣赏和文学批评水平。
每单元设有课后问答题,便于学生更好地理解内容,也有助于学生准备英语专业研究生入学考试。
每单元后的课堂活动可激发学生的学习积极性,活跃课堂气氛。
Part V The Age of Romanticism
(1789-1832)
Unit 22 William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
The Solitary Reaper
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
Unit 23 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Kubla Khan or A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Unit 24 George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Don Juan
She Walks in Beauty .
Unit 25 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Ode to the West Wind
To a Skylark
Unit 26 John Keats (1795-1821)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Ode to a Nightingale
Unit 27 Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Ivanhoe
Chapter 20
Chapter 28
Unit 28 Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Pride and Prejudice
Chapter 1
Chapter II
Unit 29 Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
Dream-Children; A Reverie
Old China
Part VI The Victorian Age (1837-1901)
Unit 30 Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Great Expectations
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
A Tale of Two Cities
Chapter 1 The Period
Unit 31 The Bronte Sisters
Charlotte Brontie (1816-1855)
Jane Eyre
Chapter 23
Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
Wuthering Heights
Chapter IX
Unit 32 Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
Break, Break, Break
Ulysses
Crossing the Bar
Unit 33 The Brownings
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
My Last Duchess
Home Thoughts from Abroad
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Unit 34 The Victorian Essayists
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
The Hero as Poet
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Sesame and Lilies
Unit 35 Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Unit 36 Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Preface
Chapter II
Unit 37 George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Major Barbara
Act III
Part VII The Twentieth Century
(1901-2000)
Unit 38 William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
When You Are Old
Easter, 1916
The Second Coming
Sailing to Byzantium
Unit 39 Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
The Waste Land
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Unit 40 James Joyce (1882-1941)
Araby
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Chapter 4, Section 3
Unit 41 Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
The Mark on the Wall
Unit 42 David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930)
Sons and Lovers
Chapter 9 Defeat of Miriam
Unit 43 Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
Waiting for Godot
Act I
Unit 44 William Golding (1911-1993)
Lord of the Flies
Chapter 9 A View to a Death
Bibliography