黄源深主编．英国散文选读．上海：上海外语教育出版社，2007

1.       36 Essayists in the book

17^th century essayist

Francis Bacon, Jonathan Swift

18^th century essayist

Joseph Addison, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsimith, William Cobbett

19^th century essayist

Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Thomas De Quincy, Robert Louis Stevenson

20^th century essayist

George Bernard Shaw, Alfred North Whitehead, Edward Verall Lucas, Hilaire Belloc, Max Beerbohm, Bertrand Russell, Winston Churchill, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, William Somerset Maugham, Robert Lynd, Edward Morgan Forster, Virginia Woolf, Alan Alexander Milne, Alexander Sutherland Neill, D.H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, John Boynton Priestley, George Orwell, Wystan Hugh Auden, Laurie Lee, Dylan Thomas, Arthur C. Clarke, Doris Lessing, Jan Morris, David Storey, Martin Amis

2.       writers

[Br.] Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), children literature writer

[Br.] Charles Doughty (1843-1926), poet, traveler, Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888)

[Br.] Edmund Spenser (1552-1599), poet, The Faerie Queene

[Br.] Edward Moore

[Br.] George Meredith (1828-1909), novelist, poet, critic, Evan Harrington

[Br.] H. G. Wells (1866-1946), science novel writer

[Br.] Henry Fielding (1707-1754) , writer

[Br.] Horace Walpole

[Br.] John Dryden (1631-1700), poet, playwright

[Br.] John Ruskin (1819-1900), writer, arts critic

[Br.] Joseph Glanville (1636-1680), religion writer, philosopher

[Br.] Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), writer

[Br.] Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), poet, critic

[Br.] Mr. Norman Douglas (1868-1952), writer

[Br.] Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694-1773), letter writer

[Br.] Robert Burton (1577-1640), scholar, writer

[Br.] Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), novelist

[Br.] Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), writer

[Br.] Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682), doctor, writer

[Br.] Sir Thomas More (1477-1535), politician, writer

[Br.] Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859), historian, critic, poet, politician

[Br.] Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), writer, historian, philosopher

[Br.] Thomas Fuller (1608-1661), scholar, writer

[Br.] Walter Pater (1839-1894), essayist, critic

[Br.] William Morris (1834-1896), poet, painter, furniture designer

[Br.] Wyndham Lewis (1884-1957), painter, novelist, critic, Rude Assignment (1950)

[Br.]Thomas Coryate (1577-1617), travels writer

[Fr.] Colette (1873-1954), writer

[Fr.] Denis Diderot (1737-1794), philosopher, critic, encyclopedia compiler

[Fr.] Francois Rabelais (1494-1553), writer, Gargantua and Pantaguel

[Fr.] Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1912), poet

[Fr.] M. Andre Maurois (1885-1967), biographer, novelist, essayist

[Fr.] Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), playwright

[Fr.] Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898), poet

[Ger.] Heinrich Hoffmann (1809-1894), writer, Struwelpeter

[Ir.] George Moore (1852-1933), novelist, critic, playwright

[Rus.] Fyodor Dostoevsky (1828-1881), novelist

Frank Richard, writer

3.       other people

[Am.] Homer Lane (1813-1880), astrophysicist

[Br.] Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), anthropologist

[Br.] Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), historian

[Br.] Henry Watson Fowler (1858-1933), linguist, Dictionary of Modern English Usage

[Br.] Horatio Nelson (1758-1850), admiral

[Br.] W.E. Williams, A Book of English Essays

[Du.] Erasmus (1469-1536), scholar, Colloquies

[Fr.] Georges Jacques Danton (1759-1794), politician

Ifor Evans, A Short History of English Literature

4.       essay magazines

The World

The Rambler

The Tatler (1709-1711)

The Spectator (1711-1712)

5.       two models of essays

1. main idea->evidence->conclusion

On Familiar Style

The Vice of Punctuality

Punishment Never Cures Anything

2. evidence->main idea

Golden Fruit

The Ironic Principle

National Prejudices