周芳主编的《英语文学名篇欣赏》的主题编排以人的成长轨迹为线索，纵阅全书，自然引发读者产生共鸣，使读者在阅读文学作品的同时联系到个人人生旅程，激发积极思考。本书除了选编传统意义上的经典作品外，也选编了一些优秀的当代作品，同时选编了如歌词等鲜为收录的作品。其目的是引导读者突破迷信经典的心理，打破狭隘的文学界限，鼓励读者接受更广泛意义上的文学作品。本书所选的作品以英美作家的作品为主，也包括其他国家如俄国、德国、法国、瑞典、尼日利亚、中国等国家的英译作品。向读者介绍不同国家、不同文化背景的作品，旨在帮助读者开拓阅读视野，丰富读者的文化体验，并激发读者在比较中进行深入思考。本书附有详尽的文学知识注解，每篇作品后附有大量由浅人深的思考问题，既便于教师教学也便于学生自学。

总序

前言

Introduction What Is Literature and How to Read Literature

Unit One Identity

 I. I'm Nobody! Who are you ? by Emily Dickinson

 II. Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

 III. Theme for English B by Langston Hughes

 IV. Two Songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

 V. Dumplings by Yi Sha

 VI. "Hamlet's Soliloquy" from Hamlet (Act III, Scene 1) by William Shakespeare

 VII. A Clean, Well-lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway

 VIII. A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka

 IX. Rice by Mary Loh Chieu Kwuan

 X. Luck by Mark Twain

Unit Two Spiritual Growth

 I. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth

 II. Anecdote of the Jar by Wallace Stevens

 III. lncident by Countee Cullen

 IV. When I Was One-and-Twenty by A. E. Housman

 V. Araby by James Joyce

 VI. A Handful of Dates by Tayeb Salih

 VII. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

 VIII. Three Days to See by Helen Keller

Unit Three Love

 I. "Guan Ju" from Shijing (Book of Verse)

 II. La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad by John Keats

 III. The Lorelei by Heinrich Heine

 IV. A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns

 V. SONNET 130 by William Shakespeare

 VI. When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats

 VII. How Do ILove Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 VIII. Variations on the Word Love by Margaret Atwood

 IX. Under the Willow Tree by Hans Christian Andersen

 X. "Balcony Scene" from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

 XI. The Blue Jar by Isak Dinesen

 XII. The Beggar by Anton Chekhov

Unit Four Family

 I. The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson

 II. From "On Children" of The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

 III. My Father's Song by Simon J. Ortiz

 IV. A Story Wet as Tears by Marge Piercy

 V. The Victims by Sharon Olds

 VI. The Photos by Diane Wakoske

 VII. My Oedipus Complex by Frank O'Connor

 VIII. "Chapter 1" from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

 IX. A Selection from A Doll's House (Act III) by Henrik Ibsen

Unit Five Man and Society

 I. Two Poems by W. H. Auden

 II. Mending Wall by Robert Frost

 III. Trust by Andy Rooney

 IV. The Man Who Married Himself by Charlie Fish

 V. Dead Men's Path by Chinua Achebe

 VI. The Bad Zouave by Alphonse Daudet

 VII. Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant

 VIII. The Law of Life by Jack London

Unit Six Contemplations

 I. The Lamb by William Blake

 II. God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins

 III. Design by Robert Frost

 IV. Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer

 V. To Hell with Dying by Alice Walker

 VI. Allegory of the Cave by Plato

 VII. How Much Land Does a Man Need by Leo Tolstoy

 VIII. "Solitude"from Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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