《英国文学经典选读》由刁克利编著，是供高等学校英语专业学生使用的英国文学教材，涵盖了从盎格鲁-撒克逊时期到20世纪的主要作家作品。全书分上、下两册，共40个单元，可供一个学年使用。本书具有以下特点：

在介绍作家和文学作品的同时，巧妙地融合了文学史的内容．体系更完整。

将文学批评方法和理论热点融入到每一单元，帮助学生提高文学欣赏和文学批评水平。

每单元设有课后问答题，便于学生更好地理解内容．也有助于学生准备英语专业研究生入学考试。

每单元后的课堂活动可激发学生的学习积极性，活跃课堂气氛。

Part I The Middle Ages (to ca 1485)

Unit I Beowulf

Background Knowledge: The Anglo-Saxon Period (450-1066)

  Beowulf

  Beowulf' s Fight with Grendel

  Beowulf' s Funeral

Unit 2 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Background Knowledge: The Norman Period (1066-1350)

  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

  Part I

Unit 3 Ballads

Background Knowledge: The 15th Century (1400-1485)

  Sir Patrick Spens

  Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires

Unit 4 Geoffrey Chaucer (ca 1343-1400)

  The Canterbury Tales

  The General Prologue

Part II The Sixteenth Century

    (1485-1603)

Unit 5 Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

  The Faerie Queene

  Book I Canto IV

Unit 6 Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

  The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

  Prologue...

  Act I Scene I

     Scene II

     Scene III

Unit 7 William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

  Sonnet 18

  Sonnet 29

  Sonnet 66

  Romeo and Juliet

  Act II Scene II Capulet's Orchard

  Julius Caesar

  Act III Scene II The Forum

  Hamlet

  Act I Scene II A Room of State in the Castle

  Act III Scene I

Part III The Seventeenth Century

    (1603-1688)

Unit 8 Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

  Of Marriage and Single Life

  Of Great Place

  Of Studies

Unit 9 Metaphysical Poets

John Donne (1572-1631)

  The Flea

  The Sun Rising

  A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

  Sonnet 10 (From Holy Sonnets)

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

  To His Coy Mistress

George Herbert (1593-1633)

  Virtue

Unit 10 John Milton (1608-1674)

  Paradise Lost

  Book I The Argument

  When I Consider How My Light Is Spent

Unit 11 John Bunyan (1628-1688)

  The Pilgrim's Progress

  Christian Sets out for the Celestial City

  The River of Death and the Celestial City

  The Conclusion

Part IV The Eighteenth Century

    (1688-1798)

Unit 12 Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)

  Robinson Crusoe

  Chapter IV First Weeks on the Island

Unit 13 Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

  A Modest Proposal

  Gulliver's Travels

  Part I A Voyage to Lilliput

Unit 14 Joseph Addison (1672-1719) and

   Richard Steele (1672-1729)

  The Royal Exchange

  The Cries of London

Unit 15 Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

An Essay on Man

Epistle 1. Of the Nature and State of Man with Respect to

the Universe

Unit 16 Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

To the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield

The Preface to Shakespeare

  Shakespeare's Excellence. General Nature

Unit 17 Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

  Book I Chapter II]

   Book I Chapter IV

Unit 18 Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

  Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Unit 19 William Blake (1757-1827)

From Songs of innocence, 1789

  The Lamb

  The Chimney Sweeper

  Holy Thursday

From Songs of Experience, 1794

  Holy Thursday

  The Chimney Sweeper

  The Tyger

  London

Unit 20 Robert Burns (1759-1796)

  Scots, Wha Hae

  For A' That and A' That

  My Heart's in the Highlands

  A Red, Red Rose

  Auld Lang Syne

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