在此次修订中，保持并发挥本书原有的特色，即“观点马列主义，内容简明扼要，语言浅显易懂，形式图文并茂”，根据近年来国外的新资料和研究成果，对全书进行了认真复核，对重要篇章均作了改写或增补，并新添不少章节，补收原来遗漏的许多重要作家，全书布局也有所调整，插图相应由103幅增加到126幅。新修订版较之旧版内容更为充实丰富，形式更为生动活泼，希望能为我国高校的英语教学和社会自学英语者继续做出贡献。

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

REFERENCES

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PART ONE EARLY AND MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE

PART TWO THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE

PART THREE THE PERIOD OF THE ENGLISH BOURGEOIS REVOLUTION

PART FOUR THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

PART FIVE ROMANTICISM IN ENGLAND

PART SIX ENGLISH CRITICAL REALISM

PART SEVEN PROSE-WRITERS AND POETS OF THE MID AND LATE 19TH CENTURY

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PART ONE:EARLY AND MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITTERATURE

Chapter 1.The Making of England

I.The Britons:

Before entering upon the study of English literature,it is necessary to know something about the English people.The English people are of a mixed blood.The early inhabitants in the island now we call England were Britons,a tribe of Celts.

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