本书按照英国文学发展的七个阶段分为七个部分，即：早期和中古文学、16世纪文学、17世纪文学、18世纪文学、浪漫主义文学、维多利亚文学、20世纪文学。全书涉及了40位作家及其代表作品60余篇。学生通过课堂学习和课外自学对英国文学有一个比较清晰的认识和理解。

Part One Early and Medieval English Literature (449-1485)

 Geoffrey Chaucer

 The Canterbury Tales

Part Two The Sixteenth Century (1485——1603)

 William Shakespeare

 Hamlet

 The Merchant of Venice

 Sonnet 18

 Sonnet 29

 Francis Bacon

 Of Studies

Part Three The Seventeenth Century (1603——1700)

 John Donne

 Song

 A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

 George Herbert

 Virtue

 Andrew Marvell

 To His Coy Mistress

 John Milton

 Paradise Lost

 Sonnet: On His Blindness

 Sonnet: On His Deceased Wife

 John Dryden

 An Excerpt from An Essay of Dramatic Poesy

Part Four The Eighteenth Century (1700——-1798)

 Alexander Pope

 An Essay on Criticism

 Daniel Defoe

 Robinson Crusoe

 Jonathan Swift

 Gulliver's Travels

 Thomas Gray

 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

 William Blake

 London

 The Tyger

 The Chimney Sweeper

 The Chimney Sweeper

 Robert Burns

 My Heart's in the Highlands

 A Red, Red Rose

Part Five The English Romanticism (1798——1832)

 William Wordsworth

 She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways

 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

 The Solitary Reaper

 George Gordon Byron

 Sonnet on Chillon

 When We Two Are Parted

 She Walks in Beauty

 Percy Bysshe Shelley

 Song to the Men of England

 Ode to the West Wind

 John Keats

 Ode to a Nightingale

 Jane Austen

 Pride and Prejudice

 Charles Lamb

 Old China

 William Hazlitt

 Macbeth Characters Analysis

Part Six The Victorian Age (1832——1900)

 Charles Dickens

 Oliver Twist

 William Makepeace Thackeray

 Vanity Fair

 Charlotte Bronte

 Jane Eyre

 Emily Brontie

 Wuthering Heights

 Robert Browning

 My Last Duchess

 Thomas Carlyle

 Heroes and Hero-Worship

Part Seven The Twentieth Century (1901——1990s)

 Thomas Hardy

 Tess of the D'Urbervilles

 George Bernard Shaw

 Pygmalion

 Edward Morgan Forster

 A Passage to India

 David Herbert Lawrence

 Sons and Lovers

 Virginia Woolf

 Mrs. Dalloway

 William Butler Yeats

 Down by the Salley Garden

 The Lake Isle of Innisfree

 Sailing to Byzantium

 Wilfred Owen

 Strange Meeting

 Thomas Stearns Eliot

 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

 Ted Hughes

 Hawk Roosting

 William Goiding

 Lord of the Flies

 Doris Lessing

 A Sunrise on the Veld

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