蒲若茜、肖淳端、董秋芳编著的《英国文学选读》在广泛参考国内外现有的同类读本后精选出30位重要英国作家的作品篇章，涉及小说、诗歌、戏剧、散文等各种文学样式，涵盖了近200年来英国文学的发展历史。

Preface and Acknowledgement
Chapter One : Poetry
1.1 England's National Epic: Beowulf
1.2 Introduction to the Ballad
1.3 Geoffrey Chaucer
1.4 Introduction to the Sonnet
1.4.1 William Shakespeare
1.4.2 John Milton
1.4.3 Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1.5 Introduction to Romantic Poetry
1.5.1 William Wordsworth
1.5.2 George Gordon Byron
1.5.3 Percy Bysshe Shelley
1.5.4 John Keats
1.6 Introduction to Modem English Poetry
1.6.1 William Butler Yeats
1.6.2 Wystan Hugh Auden
1.6.3 Phillip Larkin
1.6.4 Ted Hughes
Chapter Two : Drama
2.1 Introduction to Drama
2.1.1 William Shakespeare
2.1.2 Richard Brinsley Sheridan
2.1.3 George Bernard Shaw
2.2 Modem English Drama
2.2.1 The Theater of the Absurd
2.2.2 Samuel Beckett
2.2.3 Harold Pinter
2.3 The Angry Young Playwrights John James Osborne
Chapter Three : Novel
3.1 Introduction to the Novel
3.2 The Eighteenth Century English Novel
3.2.1 Daniel Defoe
3.2.2 Jane Austen
3.3 Novels in the Victorian Age
3.3.1 Charles Dickens
3.3.2 The Bronte Sisters
3.3.3 George Eliot
3.4 The Twentieth Century English Novel
3.4.1 Thomas Hardy
3.4.2 Virginia Woolf
3.4.3 James Joyce
3.4.4 William Golding
3.4.5 David Herbert Lawrence
3.4.6 Doris Lessing
3.4.7 Antonia Susan Byatt
3.5 Introduction to the English Short Story
3.5.1 William Somerset Maugham
3.5.2 Katherine Mansfield
Chapter Four : Essay
4.1 Introduction to the Essay
4.2 The Essay in the Seventeenth Century Francis Bacon
4.3 The Essay in the Eighteenth Century
4.3.1 Jonathan Swift
4.3.2 Joseph Addison
4.4 The Essay in the Romantic Period and the Victorian Age
4.4.1 Charles Lamb
4.4.2 Robert Louis Stevenson
4.5 The Essay in the Twentieth Century
4.5.1 Gilbert Keith Chesterton
4.5.2 Virginia Woolf
4.5.3 George Orwell
4.5.4 Winston Churchill
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