罗良功、刘芳主编的《英美文学欣赏》以作品选读为主，兼顾文学史的梳理和作家作品简介，并针对每一篇选读作品设计了一些问题，既方便学生直观地建构关于英美文学的完整的知识体系，又有利于推动学生在作品研读的基础上进行研讨和探究。本书力图将浩瀚的英美文学囊括于有限的篇幅容量之内，既强调选取具有代表性的作家和作品来反映英美文学的基本面貌，又注重选用作品的经典性，使之足以反映特定作家甚至特定流派的基本特征；同时，有机地融合新时代的文学观，将长期以来被边缘化的重要的作家作品和文学流派纳入本书的内容体系中，体现出鲜明的个性和时代特色。

British Literature

Chapter 1 Medieval Literature

 Geoffrey Chaucer (1343--1400)

Chapter 2 English Renaissance Literature

 William Shakespeare (1564--1616)

 Francis Bacon(1561--1626)

 John Milton (1608--1674)

Chapter 3 Cavalier and Metaphysical Poetry

 Ben Jonson(1572--1637)

 John Donne (1572--1631)

Chapter 4 The Rise of the Novel

 Daniel Defoe (1660--1731)

 Henry Fielding (1707--1754)

Chapter 5 Neo-Classicist Literature

 Jonathan Swift (1667--1745)

 Alexander Pope(1688--1744)

Chapter 6 Romantic Poetry

 William Blake (1757--1827)

 William Wordsworth (1770--1850)

 George Gordon Byron (1788--1824)

 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792--1822)

 John Keats (1795--1821)

Chapter 7 Women's Literature in the 19th Century

 Jane Austen (1775--1817)

Chapter 8 Realistic Novels

 Charles Dickens (1812--1870)

 Thomas Hardy (1840--1928)

Chapter 9 Victorian Poetry

 Alfred Tennyson (1809--1892)

 Robert Browning (1812--1889)

 Matthew Arnold (1822--1888)

Chapter 10 English Drama at the Turn of the 20th Century

 Oscar Wilde (1854--1900)

 George Bernard Shaw (1856--1950)

Chapter 11 Modernist Novels

 Joseph Conrad (1857--1924)

 James Joyce (1882--1941)

 Virginia Woolf (1882--1941)

 D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930)

Chapter 12 The 20th-Century Poetry

 William Butler Yeats (1865--1939)

 T. S. Eliot (1888--1965)

 W. H. Auden (1907--1973)

 Dylan Thomas (1914--1953)

 Philip Larkin (1922--1985)

 Ted Hughes (1930--1998)

Chapter 13 Novels in the Postmodern Period

 William Golding (1911--1993)

 Doris Lessing(1919-- )

 John Fowles (1926--2005)

American Literature

Chapter 1 Romantic Novels

 Washington Irving (1783--1859)

 Herman Melville (1819--1891)

Chapter 2 Transcendentalist Essays

 Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803--1882)

 Henry David Thoreau (1817--1862)

Chapter 3 Dark Romanticist Literature

 Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849)

 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804--1864)

Chapter 4 American Romantic Poetry

 Walt Whitman(1819--1892)

 Emily Dickinson(1830--1886)

Chapter 5 Realistic and Naturalistic Novels

 Mark Twain (1835--1910)

 Theodore Dreiser(1871--1945)

Chapter 6 American Modern Novels

 Henry James (1843--1916)

 Stephen Crane (1871--1900)

Chapter 7 The Rise of Women Literature

 Kate Chopin(1851--1904)

 Edith Newbold Wharton(1862--1937)

Chapter 8 The Lost Generation Literature

 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896--1940)

 Ernest Hemingway (1899--1961)

Chapter 9 American Modern Poetry

 Ezra Pound (1885--1973)

 William Carlos Williams (1883--1963)

 Robert Frost (1874--1963)

Chapter 10 Southern Literature

 William Faulkner (1897--1962)

 Robert Penn Warren (1905--1989)

Chapter 11 American Drama

 Eugene O'Neill (1888--1953)

Chapter 12 Postmodern Literature

 Joseph Heller (1923--1999)

 Allen Ginsberg (1926--1997)

 Sylvia Plath (1932--1963)

Chapter 13 Ethnic Literature

 Langston Hughes (1902--1967)

 Saul Bellow (1915--2005)

 Toni Morrison(1931-- )

 Maxine Hong Kingston(1940-- )