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為更好地滿足新時代英語專業人才培養的需要，更充分地體現教材在文學教學和學術研究中的意義和價值，本書吸收了近幾年國內外英國文學研究的最新成果，結合編者多年的教學和研究體會，以英國文學發展的歷史為脈絡，有針對性地精選了英國文學史中古時期、文藝復興時期、啟蒙時期、浪漫主義時期、現實主義時期、現代主義時期和當代文學中各種流派的代表作品。包括詩歌、戲劇、小說、散文等各種體裁，在選讀的基礎上評介了英國文學各個歷史斷代的主要歷史背景、文學思潮、文學流派以及重要作家的文學生涯、創作思想、藝術特色及其代表作品的主題、人物、結構、語言等。每章的內容既包括歷史文化背景、作者簡介、作品選讀、思考題等，又對語言難點作了較為詳細的註釋。
本書旨在培養學生閱讀、欣賞、理解英語文學原著的能力，使他們循序漸進地掌握文學批評的基本知識和方法；在提高學生語言基本功和人文素質的同時，增強他們對西方文學及文化的了解和跨文化能力。本書既可作為本科生教材使用，又可作為研究生教材使用，還可供非英語專業或具有同等英語水平的文學愛好者、出國深造預備人員閱讀賞析。
目錄
Chapter 1 The Anglo-Saxon Period (449-1066)
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Beowulf
1.2.1 Characteristic Features
1.2.2 An Excerpt from Part Ⅰ of Beowulf
Chapter 2 The Medieval Period(1066-1485)
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Geoffrey Chaucer
2.2.1 Life and Career
2.2.2 Excerpts from the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales
2.3 Folk Ballad
2.3.1 Characteristic Features
2.3.2 「The Three Ravens」
2.3.3 Sir Patrick Spens
2.3.4 「Get Up and Bar the Door
Chapter 3 The Sixteenth Century(1485-1603)
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Edmund Spenser
3.2.1 Life and Career
3.2.2 Sonnet
3.2.3 An Excerpt from Cant 1, Book Ⅰ of The Faerie Queene
3.3 Christopher Marlowe
3.3.1 Life and Career
3.3.2 An Excerpt from Act 5 of Dr.Faustus
3.3.3 「The Passionate Shepherd to His Love」
3.4 William Shakespeare
3.4.1 Life and Career
3.4.2 「Sonnet
3.4.3 "Sonnet
3.4.4 Sonnet
3.4.5 An Excerpt from Act IV of The Merchant of Venice
3.4.6 An Excerpt from Scene Ⅰ, ACT Ⅲ of Hamlet
Chapter 4 The Seventeenth Century (1603-1700)
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Francis Bacon
4.2.1 Life and Career
4.2.2 「Of Studies" from Essays
4.3 John Donne
4.3.1 Life and Career
4.3.2 「A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
4.3.3 The Sun Rising
4.3.4 「Death Be Not Proud」
4.4 George Herbert
4.4.1 Life and Career
4.4.2 「Virtue
4.5 Andrew Marvell
4.5.1 Life and Career
4.5.2 To His Coy Mistress
4.6 Ben Jonson
4.6.1 Life and Career
4.6.2 Song To Celia
4.7 Robert Herrick
4.7.1 Life and Career
4.7.2 To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
4.8 John Milton
4.8.1 Life and Career
4.8.2 An Excerpt from Book Ⅰ of Paradise Lost
8.3 「When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
4.9 John Dryden
4.9.1 Life and Career
4.9.2 An Excerpt from An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
4.10 John Bunyan
4.10.1 Life and Career
Chapter 5 The Eighteenth Century(1700-1798)
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Jonathan Swift
5.2.1 Life and Career
5.2.2 An Excerpt from
5.3 Alexander PoDe
5.3.1 Life and Career
5.3.2 An Excerpt from An Essay on Criticism
5.3.3 「0de on Solitude」
5.4 Daniel Defoe
5.4.1 Life and Career
5.4.2 An Excerpt from Chapter 4 of Robinson Crusoe
5.5 Henry Fielding
5.5.1 Life and Career
5.5.2 An Excerpt from Chapter 8.Book Ⅳ of Tom Jones
5.6 Samuel Johnson
5.6.1 Life and Career
5.6.2 「To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield」
5.7 Richard Brinsley Sheridan
5.7.1 Life and Career
5.7.2 An Excerpt from Scene Ⅰ Act Schoolfor Scandal
5.8 Thomas Gray
5.8.1 Life and Career
5.8.2 「Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard」
5.9 Robe Burns
5.9.1 Life and Career
5.9.2 「A Red Red Rose」
5.9.3 「For A That and A That」
5.10 William Blake
5.10.1 Life and Career
5.10.2 「The Lamb」
5.10.3 「The Tyger」
5.10.4 「London」
Chapter 6 The Romantic Period(1798-1832)
6.1 Introduction
6.2 William Wordsworth
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Chapter 7 The Victorian Perios(1832-1901)
Chapter 8 The Twentieth Century
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