Selected Readings in English Literature is to serye as a .textbookfor Readings in English Literature， a companion-course to History of English Literature， for third-and fourth-year students majoring in English in Chinese colleges and universities.
The selected readings included herein are all taken from original writings in English literature through the centuries， with the exception of excerpts from Beowulf and Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales forwhich modern English translations are given in the place of the o-riginal works in Old English and Middle English. As a rule， shorttexts chosen are given in their entirety， while longer works are re-presented by excerpts. In accordance with the wishes of a numberof teachers who will be using this book， we have included more se-lections here than are necessary for normal classroom use so thatteachers may feel free to make their own choice.
目录
Beowulf （Excerpts， in modern English translation）
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales （in modern English translation）
The Prologue
The Pardoner's Tale （excerpt）
The Popular Ballads
Robin Hood and the Bishop
Sir Patrick Spens
Get Up and Bar the Door
Thomas More
Utopia （2 excerpts）
Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene （Book I， Canto I）
Christopher Marlowe
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 18： Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day？
Sonnet 29： When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes
Sonnet 66： Tired with All These， for Restful Death I Cry
Two Songs from As You Like It （Under the
Greenwood Tree； Blow， Blow， Thou Winter Wind）
The Merchant of Venice （Act IV， Scene 1）
Hamlet （Act I， Scene 2； Act III， Scene 1）
Ben Jonson
Song to Celia
John Donne
Death Be Not Proud
Robert Herrick
To the Virgins， To Make Much of Time
George Herbert
Virtue
Francis Bacon
Of Studies
The King James Bible of 1611
The Story of Samson
John Milton
Areopagitica （2 excerpts）
Sonnet： To Cyriack Skinner （Cyriack， this three years'
day these eyes， though clear）
Paradise Lost （Book I， Lines 84—191）
Samson Agonistes （Lines 1596—1659）
John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress （excerpt： Vanity Fair）
John Dryden
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy （excerpt； on Shakespeare，
Beaumont and Fletcher， Ben Jonson）
Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism （excerpt： Lines 289—383）
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe （excerpt）
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels （Part IV， Chapters 5 &6）
Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
Tile Spectator （Vol. I， Nos. I & 2）
Henry Fielding
Tom Jones （Book III， Chapters 8 & 10； & Book VII，Chapter 7）
Samuel Johnson
Letter to The Right Honourable The Earl of
Chesterfield
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The School for Scandal （Act I， Scene I）
Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard （2 excerpts）
William Blake
The Chimney-Sweeper
Holy Thursday
London
The Tyger
Robert Burns
John 'Anderson， My Jo
A Red， Red Rose
The Slave's Lament
Scots， Wha Hae
Is There for Honest Poverty
Appendix I Biographical Sketches
Appendix II List of Books from Which the Texts in
This Anthology Are Taken
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