當您開始閱讀《英美文學選讀》時，人類已經邁人了21世紀。這是一個變幻難測的世紀，這是一個催人奮進的時代，科學技術飛速發展，知識更替日新月異。希望、困惑、機遇、挑戰，隨時隨地都有可能出現在每一個社會成員的生活之中。抓住機遇，尋求發展，迎接挑戰，適應變化的制勝法寶就是學習——依靠自己學習，終生學習。
當您開始閱讀本書時，人類已經邁人了21世紀。
這是一個變幻難測的世紀，這是一個催人奮進的時代，科學技術飛速發展，知識更替日新月異。希望、困惑、機遇、挑戰，隨時隨地都有可能出現在每一個社會成員的生活之中。抓住機遇，尋求發展，迎接挑戰，適應變化的制勝法寶就是學習——依靠自己學習，終生學習。
作為我國高等教育組成部分的自學考試，其職責就是在高等教育這個水平上倡導自學、鼓勵自學、幫助自學、推動自學，為每一個自學者鋪就成才之路，組織編寫供讀者學習的教材就是履行這個職責的重要環節。毫無疑問，這種教材應當適合自學，應當有利于學習者掌握、了解新知識、新信息，有利于學習者增強創新意識、培養實踐能力、形成自學能力，也有利于學習者學以致用、解決實際工作中所遇到的問題。具有如此特點的書，我們雖然沿用了“教材”這個概念，但它與那種僅供教師講、學生聽，教師不講、學生不懂，以“教”為中心的教科書相比，已經在內容安排、形式體例、行文風格等方面都大不相同了。希望讀者對此有所了解，以便從一開始就樹立起依靠自己學習的堅定信念，不斷探索適合自己的學習方法，充分利用已有的知識基礎和實際工作經驗，最大限度地發揮自己的潛能達到學習的目標。
歡迎讀者提出意見和建議。
祝每一位讀者自學成功。
PART ONE：ENGLISH LITERATURE
An Introduction to Old and Medieval English Literature
Chapter 1 The Renaissance Period
I． Edmund Spenser
Ⅱ． Christopher Marlowe
Ⅱ． William Shakespeare
Ⅳ． Francis Bacon
V． John Donne
VI． John Milton
Chapter 2 The Neoclassical Period
I． John Bunyan
Ⅱ． Alexander Pope
Ⅱ．Daniel Defoe
IV． Jonathan Swift
V．Henry Fielding
Ⅵ． Samuel Johnson
VlI． Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Ⅷ．Thomas Gray
Chapter 3 The Romantic Period
I． William Blake
Ⅱ． William Wordsworth
Ⅲ． Samuel Taylor Coleridge
IV． George Gordon Byron
V．Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ⅵ． John Keats
Ⅶ． Jane Austen
Chapter 4 The Victorian Period
I． Charles Dickens
Ⅱ．The Bront6 Sisters
Ⅲ． Alfred Tennyson
Ⅳ． Robert Browning
V． George Eliot
Ⅵ．Thomas Hardy
Chapter 5 The Modern Period
I． George Bernard Shaw
Ⅱ． John Galsworthy
Ⅲ． William Butler Yeats
Ⅳ． T．S．Eliot
V． D．H．Lawrence
VI． James Joyce
PART TWO：AMERICAN LITERATURE
Chapter 1 The Romantic Period
I． Washington Irving
Ⅱ． Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ⅲ． Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ⅳ． Walt Whitman
V．Herman Melville
Chapter 2 The Realistic Period
I． Mark Twain
Ⅱ．Henry James
Ⅲ． Emily Dickinson
IV．Theodore Dreiser
Chapter 3 The Modern Period
I． Ezra Pound
Ⅱ． Robert Lee Frost
Ⅲ． Eugene O’Neill
IV． F．Scott Fitzgerald
V． Ernest Hemingway
Ⅵ． Wmiam Faulkner
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英美文學選讀自學考試大綱
Pope had wide associations with literary men of his time， though.He made friends with both the Whig writers such as Richard Steele。Joseph Addison，William Congreve and William Walsh and the Tories like Jonathan Swift，John Gay and Thomas Parnell.In 1714 Pope and his friends formed a club which was to cooperate in a scheme to satirize all sorts of false learning and pedantry in literature，philosophy，science and other branches of knowledge.They created a figure Martinus Scriblerus（Martin the Scribbler）and used him as a butt of satire.The real importance of the club，however，is that it fostered a satiric temper which was to find exDression in such works as GulliverS Travels and The Dunci- ad.
Pope found among the men of letters both friends and enemies. He was loved and respected by many honorable，eminent and gifted men of his time。but was envied，derided and attacked by some less talented for his writings，his religion and even his physical deformi- ty.Pope。a very sensitive man，would strike back hard，and in the constant verbal battles he developed a style of biting satire.
As a representative of the Enlightenment，Pope was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.He upheld the existing SO- cial svstem as an ideal one，but he was not entirely blind to the rapid moral，political and cultural deterioration.Commercialization and money-worship were invading all aspects of national life.He，there‘ fore.assumed the role of champion of traditional civilization：of rea- son.classical learning，sound art，good taste and public virtue.For him the suDreme value was order——cosmic order，political order， social order.aesthetic order，and this emphasis on order found ex- pression in all of his works.
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