The English Reader

出版者:Oxford University Press

作者:Ravitch, Diane (EDT)/ Ravitch, Michael (EDT)

页数:512

出版时间:2006-12-18

价格:USD 35.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780195077292

In this sequel to the best-selling The American Reader, mother-and-son team Diane and Michael Ravitch have gathered together the best and most memorable poems, essays, songs, and orations in English history, capturing in one compact volume writings that have shaped not only England, but democratic culture around the globe. Here are words that changed the world, words that inspired revolutions as well as lovers, dreamers, and singers, words that every educated person once knew--and should know today. Framed by two inspiring speeches--Queen Elizabeth before the invasion of the Spanish Armada and Winston Churchill during the dark days of World War II--the book features work by William Wordsworth and W.H. Auden, Thomas Hobbes and John Stuart Mill, Mary Wollstonecraft and Virginia Woolf, Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, and many other extraordinary writers. Readers will find ardent love poems such as Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd To His Love" and Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" We also find more philosophical works such as Yeat's "The Second Coming" and Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach." There are excerpts from Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin, Walter Pater and John Ruskin, Edmund Burke and Thomas Carlyle, and other influential thinkers. In addition, the book includes song lyrics ranging from "Greensleeves" to "Rule, Britannia," and works that, though not considered classics, were immensely popular in their day and capture the spirit of an era, such as W.E. Henley's "Invictus" ("I am the master of my fate: / I am the captain of my soul"). The editors also provide brief, fascinating biographies of each writer. An exquisite gift, The English Reader offers the best of the best--the soaring language and seminal ideas that fired the imagination of the English-speaking world.

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大概是给中学生的课外读本，从伊丽莎白一世一直选到拉金。除了常规的名诗之外，还包括古老的民歌，如绿袖，爱国歌曲，演说词，戏剧选段，赞美诗等。

大概是给中学生的课外读本，从伊丽莎白一世一直选到拉金。除了常规的名诗之外，还包括古老的民歌，如绿袖，爱国歌曲，演说词，戏剧选段，赞美诗等。

大概是给中学生的课外读本，从伊丽莎白一世一直选到拉金。除了常规的名诗之外，还包括古老的民歌，如绿袖，爱国歌曲，演说词，戏剧选段，赞美诗等。

大概是给中学生的课外读本，从伊丽莎白一世一直选到拉金。除了常规的名诗之外，还包括古老的民歌，如绿袖，爱国歌曲，演说词，戏剧选段，赞美诗等。