《英国文学作品选读2》是作者陈嘉从英国文学作品中选编的一本适合我国具有较高英语水平的人阅读使用的书籍。尽可能遴选了文学史上的重要作家和重要作品。选文具有代表性，是广大英语爱好者及具有一定程度的英语自学者和英国文学爱好者进修的理想读物。

William Wordsworth

　　Earth Has Not Anything to Show More Fair

　　The Solitary Reaper

　　The Daffodils

　　Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey (Excerpts)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

　　Kubla Khan

George Noel Gordon Byron

　　Song for the Luddites

　　Sonnet on Chillon

　　Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto III，Stanzas 18-25)

　　Don Juan

　　　　Canto III，The Isles of Greece

　　　　Canto IX，Stanzas 1 — 9

　　　　Canto XI，Stanzas 9 — 11

　　　　Canto XII，Stanzas 5 — 6

Percy Bysshe Shelley

　　Song to the Men of England

　　The Mask of Anarchy (Stanzas 37-43， 47-51， 65-79， 89-91)

　　Liberty

　　Ode to the West Wind

　　One Word Is Too Often Profaned

John Keats

　　On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

　　Isabella (Stanzas 14-16)

　　Ode to a Nightingale

　　Ode on a Grecian Urn

Walter Scott

　　The Heart of Midlothian (Chapters 6 & 7)

William Cobbett

　　Excerpts from Rural Rides

　　Excerpt from Cottage Economy

　　Excerpt from Cobbett's Sermons: On the Rights of the Poor

Jane Austen

　　Pride and Prejudice (Chapter I)

William Hazlitt

　　On Familiar Style (Excerpt from the essay)

Charles Lamb

　　The Superannuated Man

Thomas Hood

　　The Song of the Shirt

Ernest Charles Jones

　　The Song of the Future

　　The Song of the Low

　　A Chartist Chorus

　　“Organize—Organize—Organize”

John Watkins

　　Lines on Shell，Killed at Newport

William James Linton

　　The Gathering of the People

Gerald Massey

　　The Men of “Forty-Eight”

Thomas Frost

　　The Secret (Excerpts: Chapters VII & VIII)

An Anonymous Chartist Writer

　　The Politics of Poets (No.1)

Charles Dickens

　　Dombey and Son (Excerpt: Chapter I)

　　A Tale of Two Cities (Excerpt from Book III，Chapter 10)

William Makepeace Thackeray

　　Vanity Fair (Excerpts from Chapters 36 & 37)

Charlotte Bront?

　　Jane Eyre (Excerpts from Chapters 5 & 7)

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

　　Mary Barton (Excerpts from Chapters 8，15&16)

George Eliot

　　Adam Bede (Chapter 27)

Alfred Tennyson

　　Break，Break，Break

　　Maud (Excerpt:“Birds in the high Hall-garden”)

　　Ulysses

　　In Memoriam (cxxx)

Robert Browning

　　My Last Duchess

　　Home Thoughts from Abroad

　　A Toccata of Galuppi's

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

　　The Cry of the Children

Thomas Carlyle

　　Past and Present (Book III Chapter XI: Labour)

John Ruskin

　　The Stones of Venice (Vol.II，Chapter 4: St.Mark's)

Matthew Arnold

　　Shakespeare

Arthur Hugh Clough

　　Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth

William Morris

　　The Earthly Paradise

　　　　An Apology

　　Chants for Socialists

　　　　The Day Is Coming

　　　　No Master

　　The Pilgrims of Hope

　　　　V. New Birth

　　　　XI. A Glimpse of the Coming Day

Algernon Charles Swinburne

　　Cor Cordium

　　A Child's Laughter

Thomas Hardy

　　Tess of the D'Urbervilles

　　(Excerpts from Chapters 42 & 43)

　　In Time of “The Breaking of Nations”

　　Afterwards

Oscar Wilde

　　An Ideal Husband (Excerpt from Act I)

Appendix I 　Biographical Sketches

Appendix II 　A List of Books from Which the Texts in This Anthology Are Taken