《英国文学简史》原为河南大学外语系英语专业自编教材，1993年，经编著者对本书进行全面修订，交河南人民出版社新修订版本。现为适应新世纪教学需要，根据国内外研究新成果，对本书内容进一步修订，增加第二次世界大战后至20世纪中后期重要诗人，小说家一编，补充插图，并提高印装质量，改为国际流行的大开本，希望能为我国高校的英语教学，有关专业本科生考研以及英语自学者继续作出贡献。

PREFACE TO THE NEW REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION

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Part One: Early And Medleval English Literature

Part Two: The English Renaissance

Part Three: The Period Of The English Bourgeois Revolution

Part Four: The Eighteenth Century

Part Five: Romanticism In England

Part Six: English Critical Realism

Part Seven: Prose-Writers And Poets Of The Mid And Late 19th Century

Part Eight: Twentieth Century English Literature

Part Nine： Poets and Novelists Who Wrote Both Before and After The Second World War