《21世纪英语专业系列教材:新编英国文学选读(第四版)》有三个国内外各英国文学选本尚没有的特色：一、重要作品后附解读举例，提出两三种可能的解读方法供学生参考，以扩大学生的思路。对不适合作多种解读的作品则提供简评，以起抛砖引玉之作用。二、每位作家及其作品后附**书目，以供对该作家或作品感兴趣的学生作进一步研究用（如要作B.A.论文的学生）。三、在全书末尾附录①欧洲与英国历史、文学的大事记年表，将英国文学置于欧洲文化的大背景下，简约地勾勒出英国历史、文学的发展线索，以方便读者。《新编》除原著与问题外，其余均用中文编写，以扩大读者面。

第四版说明
序言
MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE（449—1485）
GEOFFREY CHAVCER
The Canterbury Tales
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE（1485—1603）
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
The Merchant of Venice
Sonnets
ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY（1603—1660）
JOHN DOMME
Song
The Flea
A Valediction：Forbidding Mourning
JOHN MILTON
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
Paradise Lost
THE RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE（1660—1789）
DANIEL DEFOE
Robinson Crusoe
JONATHAN SWIFT
Gulliver's Travels
ALEXANDER POPE
Essay on Criticism
The Rape of the Lock
SAMUEL RICHARDSON
Pamela
HEHRV FIELDING
Tom Jones
ENGLISH ROMANTICISM（1789—1832）
WILLIAM BALKE
The Chimney Sweeper （1， 2）
The Lamb
The Tyger
ROBERT BURMS
A Red， Recl Rose
For A'That and A'That
Auld Lang Syne
Scots Wha Hae
EILLIAM WORDSWORTH
She Dwelt Among the Untrodclen Ways
My Heart Leaps Up
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
The Solitary Reaper
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Kuhla Khan Or A Vision in a Dream， a Fragment
JANE AUSTEH
Pricle and Prejudice
QEORQE QORDON DYRON
She Walks in Beauty
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
The Isles of Greece
PERCI BISSHE SHELLEY
England in 1819
Ode to the West Wind
To a Sky Lark
JOHN HEATS
Ode to a Nightingale
To Autumn
MARY SHELLEY
Frankenstein
ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE VICTORIAN AGE（1832—1901）
ALFIIED，LORD TENMYSON
Ulysses
Break， Break， Break
Tears， Idle Tears
Crossing the Bar
ROBERT BROWNING
My Last Duchess
Home Thoughts， from Abroad
CHARLES DICKENS
David Copperfield
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERARY
Vanity Four， A Novel Without a Hero
CHARLOTTE BROIET
Jane Eyre
Emlly BRONE
Wuthering Heights
QEORGE ELIOT
Silas Marner
20TH—CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE
THOMAS HARDY
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
QEORQE BERMARD SHAW
Pygmalion
JOSEPH CONRAD
Heart of Darkness
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
When You Are Old
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Second Coming
Sailing to Byzantium
EDWARD MORQAN FORSTER
A Passage to India
JAMES JOYCE
Eveline
Ulysses
VIRGINIA WOOLF
The Mark on the Wall
DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE
Sons and Lovers
WYSTAN HUQH AUDEN
Musee des Beaux Arts
In Memory of W.B.Yeats
The More Loving One
WILLIAM QOLDING
Lord of the Flies
DORIS LESSING
The Golden Notebook
JOHN FOWLES
The French Lieutenant's Woman
APPENDIX
英语基本文学词汇表