英语散文名家名篇赏析教程

Chapter 1 Francis Bacon 弗朗西斯·培根(1561–1626) .................. 2 Text A Of Studies ..................................................................................4 Text B Of Marriage and Single Life .....................................................9 Chapter 2 Jonathan Swift 乔纳森·斯威夫特(1667–1745) ........... 13 Text A A Modest Proposal ..................................................................15 Text B The Spider and the Bee ...........................................................27 Chapter 3 Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生 (1672–1719) & Richard Steele 理查德·斯梯尔(1672–1729) ......... 34 Text A The Spectator’s Account of Himself .......................................37 Text B The Spectator Club .................................................................44 Chapter 4 Samuel Johnson 萨缪尔·约翰逊(1709–1784) ............ 53 Text A A Letter to Lord Chesterfield ..................................................56 Text B On Idleness .............................................................................60 Chapter 5 Charles Lamb 查尔斯·兰姆(1775–1834).................... 65 Text A Dream-Children .....................................................................68 Text B New Year’s Eve ........................................................................75 Chapter 6 William Hazlitt 威廉·哈兹里特(1778–1830) ............. 85 Text A On Familiar Style (Excerpt) ....................................................87 Text B On Going A Journey (Excerpt) ...............................................91 PART I English Essays and Essayists V Chapter 7 Thomas De Quincey 托马斯·德·昆西(1785–1859) 101 Text A On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth ............................104 Text B A Happy Home .....................................................................111 Chapter 8 Bertrand Russell 伯特兰·罗素(1872–1970) ............. 118 Text A What I Have Lived For .........................................................120 Text B On Human Nature and Politics ...........................................123 Chapter 9 Edward Morgan Forster爱德华·摩根·福斯特(1879–1970) .................................................................................... 132 Text A My Wood ..............................................................................135 Text B People ...................................................................................142 Chapter 10 Virginia Woolf 弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙(1882–1941) ......... 153 Text A Street Haunting: A London Adventure (Excerpt) .................156 Text B A Room of One’s Own(Excerpt) ...........................................163 Chapter 11 D. H. Lawrence D. H. 劳伦斯(1885–1930) ................ 179 Text A Whistling of Birds ................................................................182 Text B Give Her a Pattern ...............................................................189 Chapter 12 George Orwell 乔治·奥威尔(1903–1950) ................. 196 Text A Some Thoughts on the Common Toad ................................199 Text B Refl ections on Gandhi ..........................................................206 Contents VI 英语散文名家名篇赏析教程 Chapter 13 Benjamin Franklin 本杰明·富兰克林(1706–1790) .. 220 Text A The Way to Wealth ...............................................................222 Text B The Art of Procuring Pleasant Dreams ................................233 Chapter 14 Washington Irving 华盛顿·欧文(1783–1859) ......... 240 Text A Old Christmas ......................................................................242 Text B Westminster Abbey ...............................................................250 Chapter 15 Ralph Waldo Emerson 拉尔夫·瓦尔多·爱默生 (1803–1882) ................................................................ 263 Text A Nature ...................................................................................266 Text B Beauty ...................................................................................271 Chapter 16 Henry David Thoreau 亨利·大卫·梭罗(1817–1862) .................................................................................... 280 Text A Economy (Excerpt) ................................................................283 Text B Solitude .................................................................................290 Chapter 17 Henry Louis Menken 亨利·路易斯·门肯(1880–1956) .................................................................................... 302 Text A The Penalty of Death............................................................304 Text B The Libido for the Ugly .........................................................310 Chapter 18 Elwyn Brooks White 埃尔文·布鲁克斯·怀特(1899–1985) .................................................................................... 318 Text A Once More to the Lake .........................................................321 Text B Farewell, My Lovely! ............................................................331 PART II American Essays and Essayists