索金梅，博士，南开大学教授，全国美国文学研究会常务理事，研究方向为英美文学。著述和译著包括《庞德<诗章>中的儒学》、《韦氏新世界双语格言词典》、《德里达诗学与中国传统诗学之比较》、《庞德走向中国的历程》、《记忆和心灵》、《意象主义诗歌的意思》。

Preface
The Anglo-Saxon Period 449-1066
　Introduction
　The Venerable Bede and Caedmon
　King Alfred the Great
　Beowulf
　The Exeter Book
The Medieval Period 1066 -1485
　Introduction
　Medieval Romance
　Folk Ballads
　John Wycliffe and William Langland
　Drama in the Middle Ages
　Geoffrey Chaucer
The Elizabethan Age 1485-1625
　Introduction
　Thomas More
　Sir Philip Sidney
　Edmund Spenser
　Christopher Marlowe and Sir Walter Raleigh
　Minor Playwrights
　William Shakespeare
　Francis Bacon
　King James Bible
The Seventeenth Century 1625-1700
　Introdution
　Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets
　John Donne and the Metaphysical Poets
　John Milton
　John Bunyan
　John Dryden
The Age of Neo-Classicism 1700-1764
　Introduction
　Alexander Pope
　Jonathan Swift
　Richard Steele and Joseph Addison
　Samuel Johnson and James Boswell
　The Novel of the Eighteenth Century
　Daniel Defoe
　Samuel Richardson
　Henry Fielding
　Tobias Smollett
　Laurence Sterne
　Oliver Goldsmith
Pre-Romantic Period 1764-1798
　Introduction
　Horace Walpole
　Ann Radcliffe
　Thomas Gray
　Robert Burns
　William Blake
The Romantic Age 1798-1837
　Introduction
　William Wordsworth
　Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The Victorian Age 1837-1901
The Modernist Age 1901-1945
The Postmodern Period 1945-Present
Bibliography
Index