王鼕菊主編的《英語文學概論》以主要的三類文學體裁——小說、詩歌、戲劇的要素為主線，精選經典作家的作品，通過文本及具體要素的分析評論，使讀者掌握鋻賞、分析文學作品的必要技巧，進一步培養學生的文學理論意識，提高對文學作品的鋻賞力。

Part I Fiction
Chapter 1 Plot
Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour
William Faulkner A Rose for Emily
Chapter 2 Character and Characterization
Alice Walker Everyday Use
James Joyce Eveline
Chapter 3 Point of View
Richard Conneli The Most Dangerous Game
Katherine Mansfield Miss Brill
Chapter 4 Style
Ernest Hemingway A Clean Well-Lighted Place
Amy Tan Two Kinds
Chapter 5 Tone and Irony
Shirley Jackson The Lottery
Edgar Allan Poe The Tell-Tale Heart
Chapter 6 Symbols and Allesory
Katherine Mansfield The Fly
Nathaniel Hawthorne Young Goodman Brown
Chapter 7 Theme
D.H.Lawrence The Rocking-Horse Winner
Flannery O'Connor A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Part II Poetry
Chapter 1 Speaker and Tone
William Wordsworth I Wandered ~nely as a Cloud
Emily Dickinson I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias
Thomas Hardy The Man He Killed
Theodore Roethke My Papa's Waltz
Robert Browning My Last Duchess
Chapter 2 Denotation and Connotation
There is No Frigate Like A Book Emily Dickinson
Homecoming Langston Hughes
William Shakespeare When My Love Swears That She is Made of Truth
Edwin Arlington Robinson Richard Cory
Langston Hughes Cross
Emily Dickinson This Is My Letter
William Shakespeare Spring
Chapter 3 Image, Symbolism and
Allesory
Because I could Not stop For Death Emily Dickinson
William Shakespeare Winter
lane Flanders Van Gogh's Bed
Sylvia Plath Mirror
Robert Browning Meeting at Night
Christina Rossetti Up-hill
Robert Frost The Road Not Taken
Emily Dickinson I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
Chapter 4 Fisures of Speech
The Wind James Stephens
EmiLy Dickinson It Si{ts {rom Leaden Sieves
Sylvia Piath Metaphors
Langston Hughes Dream De{erred
William Blake The Chimney Sweeper
William Wordsworth My Heart Leaps Up
John Milton Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint
Emily Dickinson A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose
Richard Lovelace To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
Anne Stevenson The Victory
Robert Frost "Out, Out--"
Chapter 5 Musical Devices
A.E.Housman On Wenlock Edge
Robert Frost Nothing Gold Can Stay
John Crowe Ransom Parting, Without a Sequel
Anne Sexton To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph
Michael Drayton Since There's No Help
Robert Frost Desert Places
A.E.Housman Eight O'Clock
Robert Herrick Delight in Disorder
Chapter 6 Rhythm and Motor
Wait Whitman Had I the Choice
George Herbert Virtue
A.E.Housman Oh Who Is That Young Sinner
Robert Frost The Aim Was Song
Emily Dickinson I Like to See It Lap the Miles
Alexander Pope Sound and Sense
Adrienne Rich Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
Chapter 7 Pattern
William Shakespeare To Be or Not to Be
Alexander Pope A Little Learning Is a Dangerous Thing
Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind
William Wordsworth She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
William Shakespeare When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes
Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Elizabeth Bishop Sestina
Chapter 8 Open Form
Life is a Nice Place Louis Gliick
T.S.Eliot The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
Suzanne E.Berger The Meal
Czeslaw Milosz Christopher Robin
E.E.Cummings L(a
Part III Drama
Elements of Drama
Types of Drama
Susan Glaspell Trifles
Bibliography