常耀信：教授，博士生导师，任教于中国南开大学及美国关岛大学．研究方向为英美文学。著有《希腊罗马神话》、《漫话英美文学》、《美国文学简史》（英文版）、《美国文学史（上）》（中文版）；主编有《美国文学选读》（上、下）、《美国文学研究评论选》（上、下）及《自选评论文集--文化与文学中的比较研究》等。此外，还在国内外刊物上发表过多篇论文，阐述中国文化对美国文学的影响。1988年被选人英国国际传记中心编纂的《远东及太平洋名人录》，后亦被选入《美国名师录》。

Foreword
Chapter 1 The Old English （Anglo-Saxon）Period·Beowulf·The Middle English Period Beowulf·The Middle English Period
Chapter 2 Chaucer·The Pre Elizabethan Period·More
Chapter 3 The Elizabethan Age·Spenser·Sidney·Marlowe
Chapter 4 Shakespeare·Bacon·Jonson·King James' Bible
Chapter 5 The 17th Century·Donne·Milton·Dryden·Bunyan·The Restoration Theater
Chapter 6 The Classic Age·Pope·Johnson·Gray·Goldsmith·Sheridan
Chapter 7 Movement toward Romanticism·Thomson·Young·Cowper, Crabbe·Blake·Bums
Chapter 8 18th-Century Fiction·Swift·Defoe·Richardson·Fielding·Sterne·Smollett
Chapter 9 The Romantic Period·Wordsworth·Coleridge·Scott·Austen
Chapter 10 Byron·Shelley·Keats
Chapter 11 The Victorian Period·Victorian Prose·Carlyle·Mill·Newman
Chapter 12 Victorian Fiction·Dickens·Thackeray
Chapter 13 Charlotte and Emily Bronte·Meredith
Chapter 14 George Eliot·Trollope·Butler
Chapter 15 Hardy·Gissing·Moore·Wilde·Stevenson
Chapter 16 Victorian Poetry·Tennyson·Browning·Arnold
Chapter 17 Clough·Hopkins·Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat·The Aesthetic Movement
Chapter 18 Victorian Drama·Shaw·Wilde
Chapter 19 The Early 20th Century·The Edwardians·The Georgians·The War Poets
Chapter 20 The 1920s·Woolf·Joyce
Chapter 21 Lawrence·Yeats·Imagism·T. S. Eliot
Chapter 22 Poetry of the 1930s·Auden·The Audenic Group·Thomas·Empson
Chapter 23 Fiction of the 1930s·Huxley·OrweU·Waugh·Greene·Isherwood
Chapter 24 Postwar Poetry
Chapter 25 Postwar Fiction
Chapter 26 Postwar Drama
Notes and References
Index