本教材的编写主要基于英语专业核心课程“英国文学”“美国文学”课程以及大学英语学生的提高课程的需要。教材在选材上结合文学史的脉络及学生的阅读基础,文本选择不仅关注其在文学史及作家生涯中的地位,更体现相关历史阶段文学的特色,同时兼顾学生的阅读水平及能力。为满足我们对学生批判性思维能力及学术研究能力的培养的需要,在每个文本选读篇章后设置了2-4道思考题。在教材内容上,强化文本背景知识方面的注释,增加语言特色的解读,培养学生的文本鉴赏能力。全书按照文学史的顺序分为一、二两册。本书为第一分册。本书选取英国文学中的代表性经典作品,纵向上按照古英语文学、文艺复兴文学等进行大致的文学分期,横向上按作家作品介绍、选读、注释、思考题和参考书目的体例进行编排。这样的安排和设计一方面是为了大致与国内高校英国文学课程的设置和教授相对应,另一方面也便于普通英语学习者阅读和赏析经典的英国文学文本。作家作品介绍和注释旨在呈现原汁原味的英文经典,使读者对经典英国文学作品有切身的体验,思考题和参考书目的设置则意在激发读者的进一步思考,并形成敏锐的跨文化意识,进而思索文化交流交融的可能图景和现实路径。
欧光安,文学博士,石河子大学外国语学院教授,中国外国文学学会英语文学研究会理事,新疆维吾尔自治区文艺理论学会理事,爱丁堡大学访问学者。出版专著3部,主编教材2部(其中《英语短篇小说选读》在北京大学出版社已出版至第二版),发表论文50余篇。
Part One Old and Middle English Period
1. Beowulf ……………………………………………………………… 1
Beowulf ……………………………………………………………………………2
2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ………………………………… 7
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight …………………………………………………8
3. Geoff rey Chaucer ……………………………………………………13
The Canterbury Tales …………………………………………………………… 15
4. Popular Ballads ………………………………………………………22
Get up and Bar the Door ……………………………………………………… 23
The Three Ravens ……………………………………………………………… 26
Sir Patrick Spens ……………………………………………………………… 27
Part Two The English Renaissance
5. Edmund Spenser ……………………………………………………32
Sonnet 75 ……………………………………………………………………… 33
6. Christopher Marlowe ………………………………………………36
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love ………………………………………… 37
7. William Shakespeare ………………………………………………40
Sonnet 18 ……………………………………………………………………… 40
Hamlet ………………………………………………………………………… 42
8. Francis Bacon ………………………………………………………46
Of Studies ……………………………………………………………………… 47
Part Three The Seventeenth Century
9. John Donne …………………………………………………………52
Death, Be Not Proud …………………………………………………………… 53
10. John Milton …………………………………………………………56
To Mr. Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness ………………………………… 57
Areopagitica …………………………………………………………………… 59
11. John Bunyan ………………………………………………………62
The Pilgrim’s Progress ………………………………………………………… 63
Part Four The Eighteenth Century
12. Daniel Defoe …………………………………………………………68
Robinson Crusoe ……………………………………………………………… 69
13. Jonathan Swift ………………………………………………………76
A Modest Proposal …………………………………………………………… 78
14. Samuel Johnson ……………………………………………………89
Samuel Johnson’s Letter to Lord Chesterfi eld ………………………………… 91
15. Thomas Gray ………………………………………………………95
The Epitaph …………………………………………………………………… 96
16. William Blake ………………………………………………………99
Laughing Song …………………………………………………………………100
The Chimney Sweeper …………………………………………………………101
The Chimney Sweeper …………………………………………………………102
17. Robert Burns …………………………………………………… 105
A Man’s a Man for A’ That ……………………………………………………106
Scots Wha Hae …………………………………………………………………109
A Red, Red Rose ………………………………………………………………111
Part Five The Romantic Period
18. William Wordsworth …………………………………………… 114
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud …………………………………………………115
Michael: A Pastoral Poem ……………………………………………………117
19. George Gordon Byron ………………………………………… 125
Sonnet on Chillon ……………………………………………………………127
She Walks in Beauty …………………………………………………………128
20. Percy Bysshe Shelley …………………………………………… 130
Ode to the West Wind …………………………………………………………131
21. John Keats ……………………………………………………… 135
On the Grasshopper and Cricket ………………………………………………136
To Autumn ……………………………………………………………………138
22. Jane Austen ……………………………………………………… 142
Pride and Prejudice ……………………………………………………………143
Part Six The Victorian Literature
23. Charles Dickens ………………………………………………… 148
David Copperfi eld ……………………………………………………………149
24. William Makepeace Thackeray ………………………………… 158
Vanity Fair ……………………………………………………………………159
25. Matthew Arnold ………………………………………………… 170
Dover Beach……………………………………………………………………171
26. Charlotte Bront? ………………………………………………… 176
Jane Eyre ………………………………………………………………………177
27. Emily Bront? …………………………………………………… 184
Wuthering Heights ……………………………………………………………185
28. Alfred Tennyson ………………………………………………… 195
Break, Break, Break ……………………………………………………………196
Crossing the Bar ………………………………………………………………197
29. Robert Browning ………………………………………………… 200
My Last Duchess ………………………………………………………………201
30. Oscar Wilde ……………………………………………………… 204
The Happy Prince ……………………………………………………………205
31.Thomas Hardy …………………………………………………… 216
Afterwards ……………………………………………………………………217
Jude the Obscure ………………………………………………………………219
Part Seven The Twentieth Century
32. William Butler Yeats …………………………………………… 229
The Lake Isle of Innisfree ……………………………………………………230
When You are Old ……………………………………………………………232
The Second Coming ……………………………………………………………233
33. John Galsworthy ………………………………………………… 236
Told by the Schoolmaster ………………………………………………………237
34. D. H. Lawrence ………………………………………………… 246
The Rocking Horse Winner …………………………………………………248
35. James Joyce ……………………………………………………… 265
Ulysses …………………………………………………………………………267
36. William S. Maugham …………………………………………… 270
Home …………………………………………………………………………271