高奋编著的《小说诗歌与戏剧探寻之旅--英语文学导读》为导读鉴赏类工具书兼教材、文学读本，分为小说、诗歌、戏剧三部分。在简要介绍不同体裁的基本要素的基础上，精选英美等国的英语文学精品，对其进行详尽的分析和赏析。包含基础知识、分析技能、赏析范例的全方位立体构架，体系完整。

本书是为学习者轻松地跨入英语文学的殿堂而编写的。它的目的不仅在于拓展学习者的通识范畴，加深理解力和提高品位，而且在于为学习者提供英语小说、诗歌和戏剧的基础知识、分析技能、赏析范例，为英语文学学习提供良好的基础能力训练，有效提升学习者的实力。

Section 1 Reading Fiction

 Chapter 1 Plot

Katherine Mansfield The Fly

 Chapter 2 Character

James Joyce Araby

 Chapter 3 Setting

Virginia Woolf Kew Gardens

 Chapter4 Point of View

Ernest Hemingway Hills Like White Elephants

 Chapter 5 Irony

Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour

 Chapter 6 Theme

Tillie Olsen I Stand Here Ironing

 Chapter 7 Stories for Further Reading

William Faulkner A Rose for Emily

Alice Walker Everyday Use

Section 2 Reading Poetry

 Chapter 8 What Is Poetry?

William Carlos Williams Poem

 Chapter9 Diction and Syntax

William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

William Wordsworth Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

Robert Hayden Those Winter Sundays

Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee

 Chapter 10 Speaker and Tone

Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

John Keats Ode to a Nightingale

Robert Browning My Last Duchess

 Chapter 11 Poetic Rhetorical Devices

Robert Browning Meeting at Night

Robert Frost The Road Not Taken

Edgar Allan Poe To Helen

 Chapter 12 Rhythm and Rhyme

Lynn Johnston A Tiny Cry within the Night

Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

 Chapter 13 Types of Poetry

Anonymous Lord Randal

John Milton Paradise Lost

Samuel Taylor Coleridge What Is an Epigraml

Alexander Pope Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog

Which I Gave to His Royal Highness

Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn

John Keats On First Looking into Chapmans Homer

WilliamShakespeare Sonnet18

Walt Whitman The Soul, Reaching, Throwing Out for Love

William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow

E. E. Cummings l(a

 Chapter 14 Poems for Further Reading

Section 3 Reading Drama

 Chapter 15 About Drama

 Chapter 16 Tragedy and Comedy

William Shakespeare Othello, the Moor of Venice, Act I

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