高继海编著的《英国文学选读(修订本)(英文版)》根据英国文学历史的顺序结合作品选读编写而成，是一套“史”、“选”结合的教材。在历史部分，对英国文学史的每个阶段作了简明扼要的概述，而在作品选读部分则尽可能遴选了文学史上的重要作家和重要作品。其结构安排为：作者简介、作品题解、选文、注释、思考题。本书内容涵盖了从16世纪之前到20世纪后期的英国文学。教材内容丰富，观点正确，选文具有代表性，可作高校英语专业文学课程的课本或参考书，也是广大英美文学爱好者的理想读物。

I Middle English Literature
Geoffrey Chaucer(1340—1400)：THE CANTERBURY TALES
Ⅱ Renaissance Literature
Edmund Spenser(1552—1599)：THE FAERIE QUEENE
Christopher Marlowe(1564—1593)：THE PASSIONATE
SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE：DOCTOR FAUSTUS
William Shakespeare(1564—1616)：SONNET 18；THE MERCHANT
OF VENICE：HAMLET
Ⅲ Early 17th Century Literature
Francis Bacon(1561—1626)：OF STUDIES：OF BEAUTY
John Donne(1572—1631)：A VALEDICTl0N：FOR
BIDDING MOURNING；DEATH BE NOT PROUD
Ben Jonson(1573—1637)：SONG TO CELlA
IV Restoration Literature
John Milton(1608—1674)：PARADISE LOST
John Bunyan(1628—1688)：PILGRIM’S PROGRESS
John Dryden(1631—1700)：AN ESSAY OF DRAMATIC POESY
V Rise of the Novel in the Early 18th Century
Daniel Defoe(1660—1731)：ROBINSON CRUSOE
Henry Fielding(1707—1754)：TOM JONES
Ⅵ Augustan Literature
Alexander Pope(1688—1744)：AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM；
AN ESSAY ON MAN
Samuel Johnson(1709—1784)：THE PREFACE TO SHAKESPEARE
Thomas Gray(1716—1771)：ELEGY WRITTEN IN A CoUNTRY
CHURCHYARD
Richard Sheridan(1751—1816)：THE SCHooL FoR SCANDAL
Ⅶ Romanticism(1)
William Blake(1757—1827)：THE LAMB；THE TYGER
Robert Burns(1759—1796)：SCoTS，WHA HAE；A RED，RED
RoSE
William Wordsworth(1770—1850)：PREFACE To LYRICAL
BALLADS；COMPOSED UPoN WESTMINSTER BRIDGE
THE SOLITARY REAPER：I WANDERED LoNELY AS A
CLoUD
Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772—1834)：KUBLA KHAN
Ⅷ Early 19th Century Novel
Walter Scott(1771—1832)：THE HEART 0F MIDLOTHIAN
Jane Austen(1775—1817)：PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Ⅸ Early 19th Century Prose
Charles Lamb(1775—1834)：0LD CHINA
Thomas de Quincey(1785—1859)：ON THE KNoCKING AT THE
GATE IN MACBETH
X Romanticism(2)
George Gordon Byron(1788—1824)：SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY；
DON JUAN
Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792—1822)：TO一；oDE TO THE WEST
WIND
John Keats(1795—1821)：oDE TO A NIGHTINGALE
Ⅺ Victorian Novel
Emily Bront6(1818—1848)：WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Charles Dickens(1812—1870)：DAVID COPPERFIELD
William Makepeace Thackeray(181 1—1863)：VANITY FAIR
Ⅻ Victorian Poetry
Alfred Tennyson(1809—1892)：BREAK，BREAK，BREAK
ULYSSES
Robert Browning(1812—1889)：MY LAST DUCHESS；MEETING
AT NIGHT；PARTING AT MoRNING
Matthew Arnold(1822—1888)：DOVER BEACH
XIII Late 19th Century Prose
Thomas Carlyle(1795—1881)：ON HERoES，HERo—WoRSHIP
AND THE HERoIC IN HISToRY
Walter Pater(1839—1894)：STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF
RENAISSANCE
XIV Literature at the Turn of the 20th Century
Thomas Hardy(1840—1928)：TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES
George Bernard Shaw(1856—1950)：MRS．WARREN
PROFESSl0N
XV Modernist Literature fPoetry)
William Butler Yeats(1865—1939)：WHEN YOU ARE
OLD；NO SECoND TROY；A DEEP．SWoRN VOW
Thomas Stearns Eliot(1888—1965)：THE WASTE LAND
XVI Modernist Literature(Novel)
Virginia Woolf(1882—1941)：MoDERN FICTl0N
James Joyce(1882—1941)：ULYSSES
David Herbert Lawrence(1885—1930)：SONS AND LoVERS
Lewis Grassic Gibbon(1901—1935)：A SCOTS QUAIR
XVII Twentieth Century Poetry
Wystan Hugh Auden(1907—1973)：WHo’S WHo；
THEIR LoNELY BETTERS
Dylan Thomas(1914—1955)：DO NOT GO GENTLE
INTo THAT GooD NIGHT
Philip Larkin(1922—1985)：CHURCH GoING
Ted Hughes(1930—1999)：HAWK RooSTING
Seamus Heaney(1939一)：DEATH oF A NATURALIST
XVIII Drama in the Second Half of the 20th Century
John 0sborne(1929—1994)：L00K BACK IN ANGER
XIX Novel in the Second Half of the 20th Century(1)
William Golding(1911—1994)：LORD 0F THE FLIES
Muriel Spark(1918—)：THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BROIDIE
XX Novel in the Second Half of the 20th Century(2)
Antonia Susan Byatt(1936—)：POSSESSION：A ROMANCE
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul(1932一)：HALF A LIFE
Julian Barnes(1946—)：THE SENSE oF AN ENDING
Kazuo Ishiguro(1954—)：THE BURIED GIANT
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