张伯香、张文主编的《英美文学简明教程(上英国文学第2版高等学校英语专业规划教材)》按照英国文学历史发展顺序分为6个单元，每一单元对应英国文学历史的一个时期。每个单元除了作家及代表作品介绍，还有历史背景、注释和思考题，以帮助学生提高理解、分析和鉴赏能力。旨在培养学生阅读、理解、欣赏英语文学原著的能力，掌握文学批评的基本知识和方法；通过阅读和分析英美文学作品，促进学生语言基本功和人文素质的提高。

Chapter 1 The Old and Medieval Period

 1.1 An Introduction

 1.2 Geoffrey Chaucer

 1.3 Folk Ballads

Chapter 2 The Renaissance Period

 2.1 An Introduction

 2.2 Edmund Spenser

 2.3 Christopher Marlowe

 2.4 Walter Raleigh

 2.5 William Shakespeare

 2.6 Francis Bacon

 2.7 John Donne

 2.8 George Herbert

 2.9 Andrew Marvell

 2.10 Ben Jonson

 2.11 Robert Herrick

 2.12 John Milton

Chapter 3 The Neoclassical Period

 3.1 An Introduction

 3.2 John Dryden

 3.3 John Bunyan

 3.4 Jonathan Swift

 3.5 Alexander Pope

 3.6 Daniel Defoe

 3.7 Henry Fielding

 3.8 Samuel Johnson

 3.9 Thomas Gray

 S. 10 Robert Burns

 3.11 William Blake

 3.12 Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Chapter 4 The Romantic Period

 4.1 An Introduction

 4.2 William Wordsworth

 4.3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 4.4 George Gordon Byron

 4.5 Percy Bysshe Shelley

 4.6 John Keats

 4.7 Jane Austen

Chapter 5 The Victorian Period

 5.1 An Introduction

 5.2 Charles Dickens

 5.3 Alfred Tennyson

 5.4 Robert Browning

 5.5 Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 5.6 Charlotte Bront

 5.7 Emily Bront

 5.8 Matthew Arnold

 5.9 Gerard Manley Hopldns

 5. l0 Thomas Hardy

Chapter 6 The Modern Period

 5.1 An Introduction

 5.2 George Bernard Shaw

 5.3 Alfred Edward Housman

 6.4 John Galsworthy

 6.5 William Butler Yeats

 6.6 T. S. Eliot

 5.7 James Joyce

 6.8 D. H. Lawrence

 6.9 William Golding

 5.10 Samuel Beckett

 6.11 Dylan Thomas

 5.12 Ted Hughes

 6.13 Seamus Heaney

Appendix Ⅰ Sample Test Paper

 Key (参考答案)

Appendix Ⅱ Acknowledgment