《英国文学名篇选注》是在我馆1962-1965年出版的《英美文学括叶文选》的基础上，加以扩充而成，共中精选十六世纪英国文艺复兴时期起至二十世纪二十年代现代派文学为止的英国文学名家五十二人的名篇，此外还收了一组英格兰和苏格兰民谣。作品种类包括民谣、诗、诗剧、英文《圣经》、随笔小品、文论、游记、传记、历史、小说、剧本等。这些篇章绝大多数是有定评的名文，在选文比例上对较近的时期略有侧重。

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1 English and Scottish Popular Ballads
Lord Randal
The Wife of Ushers Well
The Three Ravens
Sir Patrick Spens
Robin Hood and the Widows Three Sons
2 Edmund Spenser
Amoretti
Sonnet 15
Sonnet 54
Sonnet 70
Sonnet 75
Prothalamium
3 Christopher Marlowe
Doctor Faustus
4 William Shakespeare
Songs from the Plays
When Daisies Pied
Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred
Sigh No More, Ladies
Under the Greenwood Tree
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Oh Mistress Mine
Take, Oh, Take Those Lips Away
Fear No More the Heat o the Sun
Full Fathom Five
Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck I
Who Is Silvia?
When Daffodils Begin to Peer
Sonnets
XVIII (Shall I compare thee to a summers day?)
XXIX (When, in disgrace with Fortune and mens eyes)
XXX (When to the sessions of sweet silent thought)
LXV (Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor bound less sea)
The Merchant of Venice*
Julius Casar*
Hamlet*
Macbeth*
5 Ben Jonson
Song to Celia
To the Memory of ... Mr. William Shakespeare
Volpone*
6 The English Bible
The Old Testament: Genesis, Ch. I
The Song of Solomon
The New Testament: The Gospel According to St. John, Ch. I
1 Corinthians, Ch. XIII
7 Francis Bacon
Essays
Of Marriage and Single Life
Of Great Place
Of Wisdom for a Mans Self
……
8 John Donne
9 Andrew Marvell
10 John Milton
11 John Bunyan
12 John Dryden
13 Daniel Defoe
14 Jonathan Swift
15 William Congreve
16 Joseph Addison
17 John Gay
18 Alexander Pope
19 Samuel Johnson
20 Samuel Richardson
21 Henry Fielding
22 Laurence Sterne
23 Thomas Gray
24 Oliver Goldsmith
25 Richard Brinsley Sheridan
26 Edward Gibbon
27 William Blake
28 Robert Burns
29 William Wordsworth
30 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
31 Jane Austen
32 Sir Walter Scott
33 Charles Lamb
34 William Hazlitt
35 George Gordon,Lord Byron
36 Percy Bysshe Shelley
37 John Keats
38 William Cobbett
39 Alfred, Lord Tennyson
40 Robert Browning
41 Charles Dickens
42 William Makepeace Thackeray
43 Lewis Carroll
44 William Morris
45 Oscar Wilde
46 Thomas Hardy
47 George Bernard Shaw
48 William Butler Yeats
49 Lytton Strachey
50 Virginia Woolf
51 James Joyce
52 D.H.Lawrence
53 T.S.Eliot