I. Middle Ages
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
II. The English Renaissance
William Shakespeare
Hamlet
The Merchant of Venice
Sonnet 18
Francis Bacon
Of Studies
III. The Seventeenth Century
John Donne
The Flea
John Milton
Paradise Lost
John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress
IV. The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The School for Scandal
V. The Age of Romanticism
Robert Burns
A Red, Red Rose
John Anderson, My Jo
My Heart's in the Highlands
William Blake
The Tyger
The Sick Rose
William Wordsworth
She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan
George Gordon Byron
She Walks in Beauty
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode to the West Wind
John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
VI. Age of Realism (The Victorian Age)
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《英国文学选读（第2版）》分为中世纪文学、文艺复兴时期文学、十七世纪文学、十八世纪文学、浪漫主义文学、维多利亚时期文学、现代主义文学、当代文学等章节。前言部分是对英国文学各时期、流派、文学样式和主要作家的总体介绍。在每个单元有对具体作家的介绍以及剧情、故事情节或诗歌主要内容的介绍。此外有选段选节、注释、对选段选节的赏析，还有帮助深入理解和欣赏的理解讨论题、写作题目和继续阅读建议作品名录和相关的文学知识等。