本书由华中科技大学外国语学院长期担任"英美文学佳作赏析"教学任务的教师根据多年的教学实践，在自编讲义的基础上修订增补，精心编写而成。为适应非英语专业学生的知识背景和实际需求，本书编者在选材时力求做到既适当涵盖经典，兼顾英美文学，又突出选文的时代性、趣味性和可读性。本书的适用读者，包括英语第二学位学生、高等学校英美文学公共选修课的学生，同时还可供具有一定英语水平的英美文学爱好者、自学者学习之用。

Introduction
Enjoying Poetry
Enjoying Drama
Enjoying Fiction
Enjoying Essay
Part OneBritish Literature
Poetry
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day
The Flea
The Definition of Love
A Red, Red Rose
My Heart’s in the Highlands
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting
the Banks of the Wye During a Tour. July 13, 1798

Introduction
Enjoying Poetry 
Enjoying Drama 
Enjoying Fiction 
Enjoying Essay 
Part OneBritish Literature
Poetry 
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day 
The Flea 
The Definition of Love 
A Red, Red Rose 
My Heart’s in the Highlands 
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting 
the Banks of the Wye During a Tour. July 13, 1798 
The Tyger 
The Lamb 
Frost at Midnight 
My Last Duchess 
How Do I Love Thee? 
When You Are Old 
The Second Coming 
Ulysses 
Hawk Roosting 
40—Love 
Drama 
Hamlet: Prince of Denmark 
The Importance of Being Earnest 
Pygmalion 
Fiction 
The Picture of Dorian Gray 
The Horse Dealer’s Daughter 
The Garden Party 
Dubliners 
Essay 
Of Studies 
A Modest Proposal 
To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield 
The Idea of a University 
Tradition and the Individual Talent 
Part TwoAmerican Literature
Poetry 
To a Waterfowl 
Annabel Lee 
Beat! Beat! Drums! 
Because I Could Not Stop for Death 
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers 
I’m Nobody 
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 
The Road Not Taken 
Anecdote of the Jar 
The Red Wheelbarrow 
In a Station of the Metro 
Journey of the Magi 
l(a 
in Just— 
I, Too 
Dreams 
Drama 
A Streetcar Named Desire 
Death of a Salesman 
True West 
Fiction 
The TellTale Heart 
The Egg 
Rip Van Winkle 
A Clean, WellLighted Place 
A Rose for Emily 
Essay 
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 
Nature (excerpt) 
Walden 
Once More to the Lake 
Bibliography