英美散文名篇详注

Francis Bacon Of TruthThomas Hobbes Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their FeEcity and MiseryJohn Milton Areopa#tlca (Excerpts)John Dryden Shakespeare and Ben Jooson ComparedJoseph Addison Party Patches Sunday in the CountryRichard Steele Recollections ofSamuel Johnson Pope and Dryden Compared

Francis Bacon Of TruthThomas Hobbes Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their FeEcity and MiseryJohn Milton Areopa#tlca (Excerpts)John Dryden Shakespeare and Ben Jooson ComparedJoseph Addison Party Patches Sunday in the CountryRichard Steele Recollections ofSamuel Johnson Pope and Dryden Compared Letter to the Right Honourable the Eart of ChesterfieldOliver Goldsmith The Man in BlackBenjamin Franklin The Autobiogrphy (Excerpt)Chades Lamb In Praise of Chimney-sweephers old ChinaWilliam HazlittThomas De Quincey On the Knocking at the Caate m MacbethWashington Irving The Author's Account of HimselfThomas Carlyle LabourRalph Waldo Emerson Self-RelianceHenry David Thoreau Comclustion of WaldenJohn Ruskin About Reading Books St. Mark'sRobert Louis Stevenson A Plea for Gas Lamps El DoradoGeorge Robert Gissing Spring (Excerpt)Maurice Henry Hewlett The Mayoole and the ColumnEdward Verrall Lucas A Philosopher That FailedHilaire Beiloc The Crooked StreetsVirginia Woolf The Patten and the CrocusAlan Alexander Milne Golden Fruit.David Herbert Lawrence Whistling of Birds主要参考书目人名索引

本书收入25位英美作家的30篇散文名篇，包括自17世纪的培根到20世纪30年代的D．H．劳伦斯等英国作家，以及自18世纪初的富兰克林到19世纪中期的部分美国作家的作品。有些是独立成篇的随笔，有些是从长篇著作中节选的片断。英美散文名篇浩如烟海，本书不打算求全，而且也不可能做到。不过，收入本书的应当说均属脍炙人口的佳作，其中有些也是国内外教材中必选的文本。此外，约有1/3的篇章曾是本人在教学中选用过的，实践证明它们大多受到比较广泛的欢迎。