Beowulf(Excerpts, in modern English translation) 5
Geoffrey Chaucer 14
The Canterbury Tales(in modern English translation) 14
The Prologue 14
The Pardoner s Tale(excerpt) 37
The Popular Ballads 46
Robin Hood and the Bishop 47
Sir Patrick Spens 52
Get Up and Bar the Door 55
Thomas More 58
Utopia(2 excerpts) 58
Edmund Spenser 68
The Faerie Queene(Book Ⅰ, Canto Ⅰ) 68
Christopher Marlowe 73
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love 73
William Shakespeare 75
Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer s Day? 75
Sonnet 29: When in Disgrace with Fortune and Men s Eyes 76
Sonnet 66: Tired with All These, for Restful Death I Cry 77
Two Songs from As You Like It(Under the 78
Greenwood Tree; Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind) 78
The Merchant of Venice(Act Ⅳ, Scene 1) 80
Hamlet(Act Ⅰ, Scene 2; Act Ⅲ, Scene 1) 97
Ben Jonson 111
Song to Celia 111
John Donne 112
Death Be Not Proud 112
To the Virgins,To Make Much of Time 113
Robert Herrick 113
George Herbert 115
Virtue 115
Francis Bacon 117
Of Studies 117
The King James Bible of 1611 121
The Story of Samson 121
John Milton 133
Areopagitica(2 excerpts) 133
day these eyes, though clear) 137
Sonnet: To Cyriack Skinner(Cyriack, this three years 137
Paradise Lost(Book Ⅰ, Lines 84—191) 138
Samson Agonistes(Lines 1596—1659) 144
John Bunyan 149
The Pilgrim s Progress (excerpt: Vanity Fair) 149
John Dryden 162
An Essay of Dramatic Poesy(excerpt; on Shakespeare, 162
Beaumont and Fletcher, Ben Jonson) 162
An Essay on Criticism(excerpt: Lines 289—383) 167
Alexander Pope 167
Daniel Defoe 173
Robinson Crusoe(excerpt) 173
Jonathan Swift 184
Gulliver s Travels(Part Ⅳ, Chapters 5 6) 184
Joseph Addison and Richard Steele 197
The Spectator(Vol. Ⅰ, Nos. 1 2) 197
Henry Fielding 210
Tom Jones(Book Ⅲ, Chapters 8 10; Book ⅦChapter 7) 210
Letter to The Right Honourable The Earl of Chesterfield 223
Samuel Johnson 223
Richard Brinsley Sheridan 226
The School for Scandal(Act Ⅰ, Scene Ⅰ) 226
Thomas Gray 242
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (2 excerpts) 242
William Blake 246
The Chimney-Sweeper 246
Holy Thursday 247
London 248
The Tyger 249
Robert Burns 251
John Anderson, My Jo A Red, Red Rose 252
The Slave s Lament 253
Scors, Wha Hae 254
Is There for Honest Poverty 256
Appendix ⅠBiographical Sketches 260
Appendix ⅡList of Books from Which the Texts in 278
This Anthology Are Taken 278