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

To the Virgins,To Make Much of Time

Robert Herrick

George Herbert

Virtue

Francis Bacon

Of Studies

The King James Bible of 1611

The Story of Samson

John Milton

Areopagitica(2 excerpts)

day these eyes, though clear)

Sonnet: To Cyriack Skinner(Cyriack, this three years

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)

An Essay on Criticism(excerpt: Lines 289—383)

Alexander Pope

Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe(excerpt)

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver s Travels(Part Ⅳ, Chapters 5 6)

Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

The Spectator(Vol. Ⅰ, Nos. 1 2)

Henry Fielding

Tom Jones(Book Ⅲ, Chapters 8 10; Book ⅦChapter 7)

Letter to The Right Honourable The Earl of Chesterfield

Samuel Johnson

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

Scors, Wha Hae

Is There for Honest Poverty

Appendix ⅠBiographical Sketches

Appendix ⅡList of Books from Which the Texts in

This Anthology Are Taken