刁克利编著的《英美文学欣赏》共由22个单元组成。英国文学和美国文学各11个单元。英国文学包括五位散文家和六位小说家的经典名著。本书收入了散文家如培根、约翰逊博士、王尔德、罗素、福斯特等的名篇。美国文学中共选人三位散文家和七位小说家的不朽名篇。主要有富兰克林的自传、爱默森和梭罗的散文名篇等。

i an appreciation of english literature

　unit i william shakespeare

　　romeo and juliet (act ii, scene ii)

　　sonnet 18

　unit 2 english essayists ( i )

　　francis bacon

　　of studies

　　of marriage and single life

　　samuel johnson

　　letter to lord chesterfield

　unit 3 english poets

　　robert burns

　　auld lang syne-

　　a red, red rose

　　william wordsworth

　　i wandered lonely as a cloud.

　　percy bysshe shelley

　　to

　　alfred tennyson

　　the eagle

　　break, break, break

　unit 4 jane austen

　　pride and prejudice (chapter i, ii, lviii)

　unit 5 charles dickens

　　a tale of two cities (chapter i, xv)

　unit 6 charlotte bronte

　　jane eyre (chapter xxxvii)

　unit 7 david herbert lawrence

　　sons and lovers (chapter ix)

　unit 8 william somerset maugham

　　of human bondage (chapter lxi, xcvi)

　unit 9 english essayists (ii)

　　bertrand russell

　　what i have lived for

　　how to grow old

　　edward morgan forster

　　my wood

　unit 10 james joyce

　　a portrait of the artist as a young man(chapter iv)

ii an appreciation of american literature

　unit 1 ralph waldo emerson

　　nature (chapter i)

　unit 2 american poets ( i )

　　henry wadsworth longfellow

　　a psalm of life,

　　the tide rises, the tide falls

　　walt whitman

　　song of myself (1, 10)

　unit 3 american poets (il')

　　emily dickinson

　　i am nobody! who are you?

　　you cannot put a fire out

　　the brain -- is wider than the sky

　　the soul selects' her own society

　　because i could not stop for death

　　robert frost

　　stopping by woods on a snowy evening

　　the road not taken

　　fire and ice

　unit 4 mark twain

　　the adventures of tom sawyer (chapter ii)

　　the adventures of huckleberry finn (chapter xxxi)

　unit 5 henry james

　　the portrait of a lady (chapter xlii)

　unit 6 o. henry

　　the gift of the magi

　　the cop and the anthem

　unit 7 f. scott fitzgerald

　　the great gatsby (from chapter iii)

　unit 8 william faulkner

　　a rose for miss emily (i, ii, iii, iv, v)

　unit 9 jerome david salinger

　　the catcher in the rye (chapter xxll)

　unit 10 ernest hemingway

　　the old man and the sea (excerpt)

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