戴桂玉编写《新编英美文学欣赏教程》的*终目的是让学生通过阅读、领略、鉴赏、分析、阐释和评论经典文学作品，来加强语言敏感性，打开多维视角，感悟社会和生活，反思历史教训，丰富思想情感，陶冶品德情操，训练辩证思维，加强逻辑分析和阐释表达能力，提高人文素养和品位隋趣，获得审美享受和精神领悟。
　　本教程可作为高校英语专业和非英语专业学生的英美文学欣赏课程的教学用书和参考书，也可供广大英语教师和英美文学爱好者及具有一定英语水平的自学者作为进修读物。

Introduction
Ⅰ.What Is Literature?
Ⅱ.What Is the Function of Literature?
Ⅲ.How Do We Appreciate Literature?
Chapter One Essay
Ⅰ.What IS Essay?
Ⅱ.Selected Readings
1.Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Of Stud/es
2.Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Conversation
3.Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Nature (Excerpt) Self-Reliance (Excerpt).....
4.Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Walden (Excerpts)
Chapter Two Poetry
Ⅰ.What Is Poetry?.
Ⅱ.The Elements of Poetry
Ⅲ.Selected Readings
1.WdliamShakespeare (1564-1616) Sonnet 18
2.William Blake (1757-1827)
London
The Tyger
3.William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
I WanderedLone!y as a Cloud
She Dwelt Among the Untngdden Ways
4.George Gordon Bymn (1788-1824)
She Walks In Beauty
5.Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Song to the Men of England
Ode to the West Wind
6.JohnKeats (1795-1821)
Ode on a Grecian Urn
7.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
A Psalm of Life
The Tode Rises, The Tide Falls
8.Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
Break Break Break
Ulysses
9.Robert Browning (1812-1889)
My Last Duchess
Meeting at Night
Parting at Morning
10.Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Song of Myself (From Sections 1, 4, 6, 17, 42, 51, 52)
11.Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
My Life close Twice Before Its Close
12.W.B.Yeats (1865-1939) .
The Ballad of Father Gilligan
13.Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Mending Wall
The Road Not Taken
14.Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
In a Station of the Metro
The River-Merchant Wife: A Letter
15.T.S.Eliot (1888-1965)
The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
16.Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
The Load of Sugar Cane
Anecdote of the Jar
17.WdliamCarlosWiUiams (1883-1963)
The Red Wheelbarrow
The Artist
18.E.E.Cummings (1894-1962)
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r
your little voice
19.Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
The Negro speaks of Rivers
Mother to Son
20.Gary Snyder (1930-)
For the Children
Chapter Three Fiction
Ⅰ.What is fiction?
Ⅱ.The Elements of Fiction
Ⅲ.Selected Readings
1.Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Excerpt)
2.Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Rip Van Winkle
3.Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
The Minister's Black Veil.
4.Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Oliver Twist (Excerpts)
5.Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
Wuthering Heights (Excerpt)
6.Henry James (1843-1916)
The Portrait of a Lady (Excerpts)
7.Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
A Story of an Hour
A Pair of Silk Stockings
8.Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
The Egg
9.James Joyce (1882-1941)
Eveline
10.V'wginiaWoolf (1882-1941)
Mrs.Dalloway (Excerpt)
11.D.H.Lawrence (1885-1930)
The Rocking-Horse Winner
12.Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
Miss Brill
13.Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
14.Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
The Great Gatsby (Excerpt)
15.William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962)
A Rose for Emity
16.Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
A Clean, Well-LightedPlace
Hills like White Elephants
17.Ralph Ellison (1914 -1994)
King of the Bingo Game
18.Doris Lessing (1919- 2013)
A Road to the Big City
19.DonaldBarthelme (1931-1989)
The Glass Mountain
Chapter Four Drama
Ⅰ.What Is Drama?
Ⅱ.The Elements of Drama
Ⅲ.Selected Reading
Edward Albee (1928-)
The Zoo Story
Glossary of Literary and Critical Terms
References