彭家海、曾莉、盧秋平編著的《新編英國文學教
程》（修訂版）是用英語編寫、文學史和作品選讀相
結合的高等學校英語專業本科生教材，語言規範、地
道，史料翔實，可供英語專業高年級學生和英語水平
相當的英語愛好者以及文學愛好者閱讀，也可作為英
語專業考研參考書。《新編英國文學教程》（修訂版
）全書共七章，按時間順序編排，每章包括時代背景
、文學流派和作家介紹、代表作故事梗概、作品選讀
、作品注釋和生詞表，以及思考題等。所選作家及其
作品具有代表性和可讀性，便於學生欣賞和教師授課
。

Chapter One The Medieval Period
1. Introduction
1.1 Historical Background
1.2 Literature in the Middle Ages
2. Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343—1400)
3. Selected Writings
3.1 Beowulf (an excerpt)
3.2 The Twa Corbies (a popular ballad)
3.3 The General Prologue (excerpts from The Canterbury Tales)
Chapter Two The Elizabethan Age
1. Introduction
1.1 The Renaissance
1.2 The Renaissance in England
1.3 Literature of the Renaissance
2. Edmund Spenser (1552—1599)
3. Francis Bacon (1561—1626)
4. Christopher Marlowe (1564—1593)
4.1 Life and Career
4.2 Dr Faustus (synopsis)
5. William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
5.1 Life and Career
5.2 Major Works
5.2.1 Hamlet (synopsis)
5.2.2 Macbeth (synopsis)
5.2.3 The Merchant of Venice (synopsis)
6. John Donne (1572—1631)
7. Selected Writings
7.1 The Faerie Queene by Spenser (two excerpts from Canto Ⅰ, BookⅠ)
7.2 Dr Faustus by Marlowe (an excerpt from Scene Ⅰ, ActⅠ)
7.3 The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare (an excerpt from ACT Ⅳ)
7.4 Hamlet by Shakespeare (An Excerpt from Act Ⅲ)
7.5 “Sonnet 18” by Shakespeare
7.6 “Sonnet 29” by Shakespeare
7.7 “The Flea” by Donne
7.8 “The Sun Rising” by Donne
7.9 “The Canonization” by Donne
7.1 0“Death Be Not Proud” by Donne
7.1 1“Of Studies” by Bacon
7.1 2“Of Marriage and Single Life” by Bacon
Chapter Three The Restoration
1. Introduction
1.1 The Restoration
1.2 Literary Characteristics
2. John Milton (1608—1674)
3. John Bunyan (1628—1688)
3.1 Life and Career
3.2 The Pilgrim—s Progress (synopsis)
4. John Dryden (1631—1700)
5. Selected Writings
5.1 Paradise Lost (Excerpts from Book Ⅰ) by Milton
5.2 “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent” by Milton
5.3 “Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint” by Milton
5.4 The Pilgrim—s Progress by Bunyan (An Excerpt from Part Ⅰ)
5.5 “To the Memory of Mr. Oldham” by Dryden
5.6 “A Song for St. Cecilia—s Day” by Dryden
Chapter Four The Enlightenment Period
1. Introduction
1.1 Enlightenment Ideas
1.2 Literature during the Enlightenment Period
2. Daniel Defoe (1660—1731)
2.1 Life and Career
2.2 Robinson Crusoe (synopsis)
3. Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
3.1 Life and Career
3.2 Gulliver—s Travels (synopsis)
4. Joseph Addison (1672—1719)
5. Alexander Pope (1688—1744)
6. Samuel Richardson (1689—1761)
6.1 Life and Career
6.2 Clarissa: or The History of a Young Lady (synopsis)
7. Henry Fielding (1707—1754)
7.1 Life and Career
7.2 Tom Jones (synopsis)
8. Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
9. Selected Writings
9.1 “A Modest Proposal” by Swift
9.2 “Sir Roger at Church” from The Spectator (July 9, 1711) by Addison
9.3 An Essay on Man: Epistle Ⅱ (an excerpt) by Alexander Pope
9.4 “To the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield” by Johnson
Chapter Five The Romantic Period
1. Introduction
1.1 Historical Background
1.2 Romanticism
1.3 English Romanticism
2. William Blake (1757—1827)
3. Robert Burns (1759—1796)
4. William Wordsworth (1770—1850)
5. Walter Scott (1771—1832)
5.1 Life and Career
5.2 Ivanhoe (synopsis)
6. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772—1834)
7. Jane Austen (1775—1817)
7.1 Life and Career
7.2 Pride and Prejudice (synopsis)
8. Charles Lamb (1775—1834)
9. George Gordon Byron (1788—1824)
10. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792—1822)
11. John Keats (1795—1821)
12. Selected Writings
12.1 “London” by Blake
12.2 “The Tyger” by Blake
12.3 “The Chimney Sweeper” by Blake
12.4 “A Red, Red Rose” by Burns
12.5 “Auld Lang Syne” by Burns
12.6 “Robert Bruce—s March to Bannockburn” by Burns
12.7 “For a— that and a— that” by Burns
12.8 “She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways” by Wordsworth
12.9 “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud” by Wordsworth
12.10 “The Solitary Reaper” by Wordsworth
12.11 “To the Cuckoo” by Wordsworth
12.12 “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802” by Wordsworth
12.13 “London, 1802” by Wordsworth
12.14 “Kubla Khan” by Coleridge
12.15 “Dream Children; a Reverie” by Lamb
12.16 “She Walks in Beauty” by Byron
12.17 “The Isles of Greece” (from Canto Ⅲ, Don Juan) by Byron
12.18 “Ode to the West Wind” by Shelley
12.19 “Ozymandias” by Shelley
12.20 “To—” by Shelley
12.21 “To a Skylark” by Shelley
12.22 “Ode to a Nightingale” by Keats
12.23 “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by Keats
12.24 “On first Looking into Chapman—s Homer” by Keats
Chapter Six The Victorian Age
1. Introduction(131)
1.1 Historical Background
1.2 Literary Characteristics
2. Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809—1892)
3. Robert Browning (1812—1889) and Elizabeth Browning (1806—1861)
4. Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
4.1 Life and Career
4.2 David Copperfield (synopsis)
5. The Bront— Sisters
5.1 Literary Career
5.2 Major Works
5.2.1 Wuthering Heights (synopsis)
5.2.2 Jane Eyre (synopsis)
6. George Eliot (1819—1880)
6.1 Life and Career
6.2 Middlemarch (synopsis)
7. Thomas Hardy (1840—1928)
7.1 Life and Career
7.2 Tess of the D—Urbervilles (synopsis)
8. George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
8.1 Life and Career
8.2 Mrs. Warren—s Profession (synopsis)
9. Selected Writings
9.1 “Ulysses” by Tennyson
9.2 “Break, Break, Break” by Tennyson
9.3 “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning
9.4 “Home Thoughts, from the Sea” by Robert Browning
9.5 “How Do I Love Thee? Let me Count the Ways. ” by Elizabeth Browning
9.6 “Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell” by Charlotte Bronte
Chapter Seven The Twentieth Century
1. Introduction
1.1 Historical Background
1.2 Modernism
1.3 Literary Characteristics
2. Joseph Conrad (1857—1924)
2.1 Life and Career
2.2 Heart of Darkness (synopsis)
3. William Butler Yeats (1865—1939)
4. E. M. Forster (1879—1970)
4.1 Life and Career
4.2 A Passage to India (synopsis)
5. James Joyce (1882—1941)
5.1 Life and Caree
5.2 Ulysses (synopsis)
6. Virginia Woolf (1882—1941)
6.1 Life and Career
6.2 To the Lighthouse (synopsis)
7. D. H. Lawrence (1885—1930)
7.1 Life and Career
7.2 Sons and Lovers (synopsis)
8. T. S. Eliot (1888—1965)
9. Samuel Beckett (1906—1989)
10. Wystan Hugh Auden (1907—1973)
11. William Golding (1911—1993)
11.1 Life and Career
11.2 Lord of the Flies (synopsis)
12. Doris Lessing (1919—2013)
12.1 Life and career
12.2 The Golden Notebook (synopsis)
13. Sir V. S. Naipaul (1932—)
13.1 Life and Career
13.2 A House for Mr. Biswas (synopsis)
14. Selected Writings
14.1 “Down by the Salley Gardens” by Yeats
14.2 “Leda and the Swan” by Yeats
14.3 “Sailing to Byzantium” by Yeats
14.4 “The Second Coming” by Yeats
14.5 “My Wood” by Forster
14.6 “Araby” by Joyce
14.7 “Dorothy Wordsworth” by Woolf
14.8 “The Mark on the Wall” by Woolf
14.9 “Tickets, Please” by Lawrence
14.10 “Journey of the Magi” by Eliot
14.11 “Sweeney among the Nightingales” by Eliot
14.12 Waiting for Godot by Beckett (An Excerpt from Act Ⅰ)
14.13 “Who—s Who” by Auden
14.14 “Their Lonely Betters” by Auden
14.15 “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” by Auden
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