王书亭、王建敏、刘艳芹编著的《英美传统经典文论选读》是中国石油大学文学院给英语专业硕士研究生开设《西方文论阅读与欣赏》课程的规划教材，是在多年开设相关课程的基础上经过精心选编而成。全书共收英美传统经典文论41篇，分三部分编辑，包括：英国经典文论，美国经典文论和附加阅读材料。

第一部分：英国经典文论

1.Seeing the Wind

2.Holy Dying

3.The Rewards of the Professions

4.On National Prejudice

5.0n Life

6.Happiness

7.On Liberty

8.Books

9.Give Her a Pattern

10.What iS Science？

11.The TWO Cultures

12.Thinking as a Hobby

13.A Liberal Education

14.Defence and Happiness of Married Life

15.On Knowing What Gives Us Pleasure

16.The Decay of Friendship

17.Why Are Beggars Despised？

第二部分：美国经典文论

18.American Character

19.Advice to Youth

20.Love

21.Chinese Primitivism

22.The Nature of Liberty

23.Conformity to Nature

24.The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life

25.TO Err Is HUman

26.Beauty

27.The Company Man

28.On Women’s Right to Vote

29.Advice on the Choice of a Mistress

30.Two Ways of Seeing a River

31.HOW to Live to Be 200

第三部分：附加阅读材料

32.An Apology for Idlers

33.Chapter One of Reveries Over Childhood and Youth

34.Consideration of the Vanity and Shortness of Man’s Life

35.In Praise of Idleness

36.On Keeping a Secret

37.The Essence of Humanism

38.Ftom Rural Hours

39.The Superstition of School

40.Why Law Is Indispensable？

41.The Battle of the Ants