王冬菊主编的《英语文学概论》以主要的三类文学体裁——小说、诗歌、戏剧的要素为主线，精选经典作家的作品，通过文本及具体要素的分析评论，使读者掌握鉴赏、分析文学作品的必要技巧，进一步培养学生的文学理论意识，提高对文学作品的鉴赏力。

Part I Fiction

Chapter 1 Plot

 Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour

 William Faulkner A Rose for Emily

Chapter 2 Character and Characterization

 Alice Walker Everyday Use

 James Joyce Eveline

Chapter 3 Point of View

 Richard Conneli The Most Dangerous Game

 Katherine Mansfield Miss Brill

Chapter 4 Style

 Ernest Hemingway A Clean Well-Lighted Place

 Amy Tan Two Kinds

Chapter 5 Tone and Irony

 Shirley Jackson The Lottery

 Edgar Allan Poe The Tell-Tale Heart

Chapter 6 Symbols and Allesory

 Katherine Mansfield The Fly

 Nathaniel Hawthorne Young Goodman Brown

Chapter 7 Theme

 D.H.Lawrence The Rocking-Horse Winner

 Flannery O'Connor A Good Man Is Hard To Find

Part II Poetry

Chapter 1 Speaker and Tone

 William Wordsworth I Wandered ~nely as a Cloud

 Emily Dickinson I'm Nobody! Who are you?

 Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias

 Thomas Hardy The Man He Killed

 Theodore Roethke My Papa's Waltz

 Robert Browning My Last Duchess

Chapter 2 Denotation and Connotation

 There is No Frigate Like A Book Emily Dickinson

 Homecoming Langston Hughes

 William Shakespeare When My Love Swears That She is Made of Truth

 Edwin Arlington Robinson Richard Cory

 Langston Hughes Cross

 Emily Dickinson This Is My Letter

 William Shakespeare Spring

Chapter 3 Image, Symbolism and

 Allesory

 Because I could Not stop For Death Emily Dickinson

 William Shakespeare Winter

 lane Flanders Van Gogh's Bed

 Sylvia Plath Mirror

 Robert Browning Meeting at Night

 Christina Rossetti Up-hill

 Robert Frost The Road Not Taken

 Emily Dickinson I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died

Chapter 4 Fisures of Speech

 The Wind James Stephens

 EmiLy Dickinson It Si{ts {rom Leaden Sieves

 Sylvia Piath Metaphors

 Langston Hughes Dream De{erred

 William Blake The Chimney Sweeper

 William Wordsworth My Heart Leaps Up

 John Milton Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint

 Emily Dickinson A Narrow Fellow in the Grass

 Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose

 Richard Lovelace To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

 Anne Stevenson The Victory

 Robert Frost "Out, Out--"

Chapter 5 Musical Devices

 A.E.Housman On Wenlock Edge

 Robert Frost Nothing Gold Can Stay

 John Crowe Ransom Parting, Without a Sequel

 Anne Sexton To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph

 Michael Drayton Since There's No Help

 Robert Frost Desert Places

 A.E.Housman Eight O'Clock

 Robert Herrick Delight in Disorder

Chapter 6 Rhythm and Motor

 Wait Whitman Had I the Choice

 George Herbert Virtue

 A.E.Housman Oh Who Is That Young Sinner

 Robert Frost The Aim Was Song

 Emily Dickinson I Like to See It Lap the Miles

 Alexander Pope Sound and Sense

 Adrienne Rich Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

Chapter 7 Pattern

 William Shakespeare To Be or Not to Be

 Alexander Pope A Little Learning Is a Dangerous Thing

 Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind

 William Wordsworth She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways

 William Shakespeare When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes

 Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

 Elizabeth Bishop Sestina

Chapter 8 Open Form

 Life is a Nice Place Louis Gliick

 T.S.Eliot The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock

 Suzanne E.Berger The Meal

 Czeslaw Milosz Christopher Robin

 E.E.Cummings L(a

Part III Drama

Elements of Drama

Types of Drama

Susan Glaspell Trifles

Bibliography