《英国文学经典选读》是“史”“选”结合的教材，各个部分按照英国文学史的时间顺序划时期，简明介绍了英国文学从古代到20世纪的历史文化背景、文学史特点，选择代表作家和经典作品。每章包括作家生平简介、作品介绍、注释、名词解释、思考题等。《英国文学经典选读》线索清晰，旨在为学生搭建英国文学框架，引导学生阅读经典原著，感受英国文学的人文精神和丰富的思想内涵，帮助学生开阔视野、丰富想象、体悟人性、品味人生。《英国文学经典选读》适合我国高等院校学生作为通识课程教材。

Chapter 1 Eady and Medieval English Literature
Unit Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales


Chapter 2 English Literature in the Renaissance
Unit 1 Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene
Unit 2 William Shakespeare
Hamlet
Sonnet 18


Chapter 3 Literature of the English Revolution and Restoration
Unit 1 John Milton
Paradise Lost
Unit 2 John Bunyan
The Pilgrim’S Progress
Unit 3 John Donne
A Valediction：Forbidding Mourning


Chapter 4 18th Century English Literature
Unit 1 Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Unit 2 Jonathan Swift
Guuiver's Travels
Unit 3 William Blake
London
Unit 4 Robert Burns
A Red Rcd Rose


Chapter 5 Romanticism in English Literature
Unit 1 William Wordsworth
I wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Unit 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Unit 3 George Gordon Byron
The Isles of Greece
Unit 4 John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale
Unit 5 Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode to the West Wind
Unit 6 Jane Austen
Pride and Preiudice


Chapter 6 1 9th Century English Literature
Unit 1 Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
Unit 2 The Bront~Sisters
Jane Eyre
Unit 3 Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D’Urbervilles


Chapter 7 20th Century English Literature
Unit 1 Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
Unit 2 William Butler Yeats
When YOU Are 0ld
The Second Coming
Unit 3 James Joyce
Ulysses
Unit 4 Virginia woolf
Mrs Dalloway
Unit 5 David Herbert Lawrence
Sons and Lovers
Unit 6 Doris May Lessing
A woman on a Roof
参考文献