《英国文学作品选读 第1册》

Beowulf(Excerpts, in modern English translation)5

Geoffrey Chaucer14

The Canterbury Tales(in modern English translation)14

The Prologue14

The Pardoner s Tale(excerpt)37

The Popular Ballads46

Robin Hood and the Bishop47

Sir Patrick Spens52

Get Up and Bar the Door55

Thomas More58

Utopia(2 excerpts)58

Edmund Spenser68

The Faerie Queene(Book Ⅰ, Canto Ⅰ)68

Christopher Marlowe73

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love73

William Shakespeare75

Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer s Day?75

Sonnet 29: When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men s Eyes76

Sonnet 66: Tired with All These, for Restful Death I Cry77

Two Songs from As You Like It(Under the78

Greenwood Tree; Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind)78

The Merchant of Venice(Act Ⅳ, Scene 1)80

Hamlet(Act Ⅰ, Scene 2; Act Ⅲ, Scene 1)97

Ben Jonson111

Song to Celia111

John Donne112

Death Be Not Proud112

To the Virgins,To Make Much of Time113

Robert Herrick113

George Herbert115

Virtue115

Francis Bacon117

Of Studies117

The King James Bible of 1611121

The Story of Samson121

John Milton133

Areopagitica(2 excerpts)133

day these eyes, though clear)137

Sonnet: To Cyriack Skinner(Cyriack, this three years137

Paradise Lost(Book Ⅰ, Lines 84—191)138

Samson Agonistes(Lines 1596—1659)144

John Bunyan149

The Pilgrim s Progress (excerpt: Vanity Fair)149

John Dryden162

An Essay of Dramatic Poesy(excerpt; on Shakespeare,162

Beaumont and Fletcher, Ben Jonson)162

An Essay on Criticism(excerpt: Lines 289—383)167

Alexander Pope167

Daniel Defoe173

Robinson Crusoe(excerpt)173

Jonathan Swift184

Gulliver s Travels(Part Ⅳ, Chapters 5 6)184

Joseph Addison and Richard Steele197

The Spectator(Vol. Ⅰ, Nos. 1 2)197

Henry Fielding210

Tom Jones(Book Ⅲ, Chapters 8 10; Book ⅦChapter 7)210

Letter to The Right Honourable The Earl of Chesterfield223

Samuel Johnson223

Richard Brinsley Sheridan226

The School for Scandal(Act Ⅰ, Scene Ⅰ)226

Thomas Gray242

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (2 excerpts)242

William Blake246

The Chimney-Sweeper246

Holy Thursday247

London248

The Tyger249

Robert Burns251

John Anderson, My Jo A Red, Red Rose252

The Slave s Lament253

Scors, Wha Hae254

Is There for Honest Poverty256

Appendix ⅠBiographical Sketches260

Appendix ⅡList of Books from Which the Texts in278

This Anthology Are Taken278