英国文学必读篇目

《英国文学》课程必读篇目

教材：罗经国编注《新编英国文学选读》（上、下）第二版，北京大学出版社

未标“下”指上册，标了“下”指下册

1. Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales

自p.33 When the sweet showers...至p.35 And lower, Amor vincit omnia.

2. William Shakespeare

p. 99 “Sonnet 18”; p.156-157 Hamlet Act III Scene 1

3. Francis Bacon “Of Studies”

p. 178 全篇

4. John Donne “A V alediction: Forbidding Mourning”

p. 192 全篇

5. John Milton Paradise Lost

p. 209 “…What though the field be lost?...至p. 210 Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heaven.”

6. Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders

p. 243 开头Now I seem’d landed...至p. 245 倒数第二段第三行and what can be done?

p. 248 第二段I went out now by day-light…至p.249最后一段meer necessity drove me to.

7. Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal

p. 257 最后一段I have been assured by…至p. 258倒数第二段seem to have the best title to the children.

p. 263 最后一段But as to myself…至p. 264第一段without it.

p. 264 最后一段

8. Samuel Johnson Letter to the Right Honourable The Earl of Chesterfield

p. 291全篇

9. William Wordsworth “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

下p. 17-18全篇

10. Alfred Tennyson “Break, Break, Break”

下p. 174 全篇

11. T. S. Eliot The Waste Land

选读the first stanza,教材上没有，见本文档第二页附材料。

《英国文学》背诵篇目

1.“Sonnet 18” by Shakespeare

2.“To be or not to be” by Shakespeare

3.“Of Studies” by Francis Bacon

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. 4.“Letter to the Right Honourable The Earl of Chesterfield” by Samuel Johnson

The Shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a Native of the Rocks. Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help. The notice which you have been pleased to take of my Labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent and cannot enjoy it, till I am solitary and cannot impart it, till I am known and do not want it.

5.“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth

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以上篇目要求学生熟练背诵，期末考试拟以填空题形式考查。

The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot

I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD

April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

Winter kept us warm, covering 5 Earth in forgetful snow, feeding

A little life with dried tubers.

Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee

With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,

And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, 10 And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.

Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch.

And when we were children, staying at the archduke's,

My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,

And I was frightened. He said, Marie, 15 Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.

In the mountains, there you feel free.

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow

Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, 20 You cannot say, or guess, for you know only

A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,

And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,

And the dry stone no sound of water. Only

There is shadow under this red rock, 25 (Come in under the shadow of this red rock),

And I will show you something different from either

Your shadow at morning striding behind you

Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;

I will show you fear in a handful of dust. 30

Frisch weht der Wind

Der Heimat zu.

Mein Irisch Kind,

Wo weilest du?

'You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; 35 'They called me the hyacinth girl.'