《英美文学简明教程》根据教育部新修订的英语教学大纲的要求编写,旨在培养学生阅读、理解、欣赏英语文学原著的能力,掌握文学批评的基本知识和方法;通过阅读和分析英美文学作品,促进学生语言基本功和人文素质的提高,增强学生对英美文学及文化的了解。
《英美文学简明教程》分上、下两册。上册为英国文学。作者在编写本教材的过程中,参考了大量国内外同类教材,吸收了国内外英国文学研究的*新成果。按照英国文学发展的历史顺序,编选了各个历史时期有代表性的作家的代表作品;选材上也注意诗歌、小说、戏剧和散文等各种体裁的适当搭配。
《英美文学简明教程上册英国文学》按照英国文学历史发展顺序分为6个单元,每一单元对应英国文学历史的一个时期。每个单元除了作家及代表作品介绍,还有历史背景、注释和思考题,以帮助学生提高理解、分析和鉴赏能力。
本书既可作为普通高等院校英语专业教材,也可供独立学院、教育学院、广播电视大学、成人高等教育及社会上英语自学者学习使用。

Chapter 1 The Old and Medieval Period
1.1 An Introduction
1.2 Geoffrey Chaucer
Excerpts from the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales
1.3 Folk Ballads
“The Three Ravens”
“Get Up and Bar the Door”
Chapter 2 The Renaissance Period
2.1 An Introduction
2.2 Edmund Spenser
“Sonnet 75”
2.3 Christopher Marlowe
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
2.4 William Shakespeare
“Sonnet 18”
“Sonnet 73”
An Excerpt from The Merchant of Venice
2.5 Francis Bacon
“Of Studies” from Essays
2.6 John Donne
“Valediction Forbidding Mourning”
“Death Be Not Proud”
2.7 George Herbert
“Virtue”
2.8 Ben Jonson
“Song--To Celia”
2.9 Robert Herrick
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
2. l0 John Milton
An Excerpt from Paradise Lost
Chapter 3 The Neoclassical Period
3.1 An Introduction
3.2 John Dryden
An Excerpt from An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
3.3 John Bunyan
“The Vanity Fair”: An Excerpt from The Pilgrim' s Progress
3.4 Jonathan Swift
An Excerpt from Gulliver' s Travels
3.5 Alexander Pope
“Ode on Solitude”
3.6 Daniel Defoe
An Excerpt from Robinson Crusoe
3.7 Henry Fielding
An Excerpt from Tom Jones
3.8 Samuel Johnson
To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield
3.9 Thomas Gray
An Excerpt from ”Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
3. l0 Robert Bums
“A Red, Red Rose”
3.11 William Blake
“The Chimney Sweeper” (from Songs of Innocence)
“London”
Chapter 4 The Romantic Period
4.1 An Introduction
4.2 William Wordsworth
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
“Composed upon Westminster Bridge”
“She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways”
4.3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Kubla Khan”
4.4 George Gordon Byron
“Song for the Luddites”
“She Walks in Beauty”
4.5 Percy Bysshe Shelley
“A Song: 'Men of England”'
“Ozymandias”
4.6 John Keats
“To Autumn”
4.7 Jane Austen
An Excerpt from/b/de and Prejudice
Chapter 5 The Victorian Period
5.1 An Introduction
5.2 Charles Dickens
An Excerpt from Great Expectations
5.3 Alfred Tennyson
“Break, Break, Break”
“Crossing the Bar”
“The Eagle”
5.4 Robert Browning
“Meeting at Night”
“Home-Thoughts, from Abroad”
5.5 Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“How Do I Love Thee?”
5.6 Charlotte Bronte
An Excerpt from Jane Eyre
5.7 Thomas Hardy
“The Man He Killed”
An Excerpt from Tess of the d' UrberviUes
Chapter 6 The Modern Period
6.1 An Introduction
6.2 George Bernard Shaw
An Excerpt from Pygmalion
6.3 William Butler Yeats
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
“Down by the SaUey Gardens”
6.4 T. S. Eliot
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
6.5 James Joyce
“Araby” from Dubliners
6.6 D. H. Lawrence
An Excerpt from Sons and Lovers
6.7 Dylan Thomas
“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
6.8 William Golding
An Excerpt from Lord of the Flies
6.9 Ted Hughes
“Hawk Roosting”
6.10 Seamns Heaney
“Follower”
References

文学教学是语言教学中十分重要的一部分,它不仅可以帮助学生拓宽视野,提高分析鉴赏能力,而且可以熏陶学生的思想情操,加强他们对人类社会的认识与了解。教育部新近修订的本书的出版正是为了这一目的。全书广泛比较了国内外现有的同类教材,按照选取适合学生阅读又具代表性的常见作品为原则,并结合编者自己多年的教学和研究体会,以英美文学发展的历史为顺序,编选了各个历史时期主要作家的代表作品。在体裁上,我们注意了诗歌、小说、戏剧与散文的适当比例。每章的内容包括历史文化背景、作者简介、作品选读、注释和思考题等。
该书是普通高等院校英语专业教材,也可供独立学院、教育学院、广播电视大学、成人高等教育及社会上英语自学者学习使用。