目录

1、 SIR FRANCIS BACON(1561-1626), Narcissus; or Self-Love

2、 ABRAHAM COWLEY(1618-1667), Of Avarice

3、 JONATHAN SWIFT(1667-1745), A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding

4、 LORD CHESTERFIELD(1694-1773), Upon Affectation

5、 JOSEPH ADDISON(1672-1719), Thoughts in Westminsters Abbey

6、 SIR RICHARD STEELE(1672-1729), On Recollections of Childhood

7、 SAMUEL JOHNSON(1709-1784), Conversation

8、 DAVID HUME(1711-1776), Of the Dignity of Meanness of Human Nature

9、 OLIVER GOLDSMITH(?1730-1774), A Little Great Man

10、JAMES BOSWELL(1740-1795), First Meeting with Johnson

11、CHARLES LAMB(1775-1834), The Child Angel: a Dream

12、WILLIAM HAZLITT(1778-1830), On a Landscape of Nicholas Poussin

13、JAMES H.L.HUNT(1784-1859), Getting Up on Cold Mornings

14、THOMAS DE QUINCEY(1785-1859), On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth

15、MATTHEW ARNOLD(1822-1888), Heine and the Philistines

16、WILLIAM HALE WHITE(1831-1913), An Afternoon Walk in October

17、W.H.HUDSON(1841-1922), Her Own Village

18、ALICE MEYNELL (1847-1922), July

19、RICHARD JEFFERIES(1848-1887), The Acorn-Gatherer

20、SIR EDMUND GOSSE(1849-1928), A Visit to Walt Whitman

21、AUGUSTINE BIRRELL(1850-1933), Book-Buying

22、OSCAR WILDE(1854-1900), Impressions of America

23、ARTHUR CLUTTON-BROCK(1868-1924), Sunday Before the War

24、HILAIRE BELLOC(1870-1953), Our Inheritance

25、SIR MAX BEERBOHM(1872-1956), The Morris Dancers

26、BERTRAND RUSSELL(1872-1970), On Being Modern-Minded

27、G.K. CHESTERTON(1874-1936), French and English

28、ROBERT LYND(1879-1949), The Darkness

29、E.M. FORSTER(1879-1970), My Wood

30、ROSE MACAULAY(1881-1958), Evening Parties

31、VIRGINIA WOOLF(1882-1941), On a Faithful Friend

32、D.H. LAWRENCE(1885-1930), Insouciance

33、JOYCE CARY(1888-1957), The Artist and the World

34、ALDOUS L. HUXLEY(1894-1963), Meditation on the Moon

35、J.B. PRIESTLEY(1894-1984), The Toy Farm

36、GEORGE ORWELL(1903-1950), Reflections on Gandhi

37、EVELYN WAUGH(1903-1966), Take Your Home into Your Own Hands!

38、CYRIL CONNOLLY(1903-1974), The Ant-Lion

39、WILLIAM EMPSON(1906-1984), The Faces of Buddha

40、ALFRED ALVAREZ(1929-), Death of the Poet