赵伐主编的《英语散文--鉴赏与写作》从新古典 主义、浪漫主义、现实主义，尤其是现当代等各个时 期的英语散文名篇当中精选出12篇作为课文，按照托 物喻理、感事抒怀、追忆过往、赞叹自然、感悟人生 、反思自我、刻画人物、思考哲理等话题由简到难进 行编排。这些散文风格各异，有描述的、叙述的、论 述的和夹叙夹议的。为使学生更好地理解、欣赏这些 美文，每篇课文之后还附有若干讨论题，以及有关这 篇课文的用词、造句、修辞、篇章、鉴赏等方面的提 示，帮助学生了解英语散文的基础知识、修辞手段和 创作技法，掌握英语散文的审美方法，培养鉴赏英语 散文的能力。另外，每课末尾还配有课后阅读材料， 有的是同一作者不同话题的美文，有的是不同作者关 于同一话题的文章，供师生扩展阅读之用。同时，本 教材还专门为教师配备了教案，详细说明每课的教学 重点，以及有关课文和课后阅读材料的背景知识、文 学知识、语言知识、学生学习方法介绍、教师教学方 法介绍等，并提供各课的练习参考答案。

总序 前言 Unit One “On Doors” by ChristopherDarlingtonMorley Literary Device: Symbol(象征) CompositionGuide: AchievingCoherence Further Reading: “A Letter to Father Time(New Year's Eve)” by Christopher Darlington Morley Unit Two “On Doors” by ChristopherDarlingtonMorley “On Going a Journey“byWilliamHazlitt Literary Device: Rhetorical Question(修辞性问句) Composition Guide: Position Defending FurtherReading: “GoingOutfor a Walk” by Max Beerbohm Unit Three “A Piece of Chalk” by G．K．Chesterton Literary Device: Hyperbole／Exaggeration(夸张) Composition Guide: Narratingand Reflecting Further Reading: “On Running After One's Hat”by G．K．Chesterton Unit Four “A Relic”by Max Beerbohm Literary Device: Allusion(引喻) CompositionGuide: Narrative Point of View FurtherReading: “They All Just Went Away”by Joyce Carol Oates Unit Five “On Lying Awake at Night” by Stewart Edward White Literary Device: Personification(拟人) Composition Guide: Description Further Reading: “NiagaraFalls”by Rupert Brooke Unit Six “Rude Am I in My Speech”by Caryl Phillips Literary Devices: Metaphor and Simile(隐喻与明喻) Composition Guide: Compare and Contrast Further Reading: “Do He Have Your Number, Mr．Jeffrey?” by Gayle Pemberton Unit Seven “AboutFace”by Joseph Epstein Literary Device: Transferred Epithet(移就) CompositionGuide: Paragraph Development Further Reading: “My Face” by Robert Benchley Unit Eight “La Paz”by Jan Morris Literary Device: Rhyme(押韵) CompositionGuide: TravelEssay FurtherReading: “Pamplonain July”by Ernest Hemingway Unit Nine “Grieving”byMeenakshi cigiDurham Literary Device: Humor(幽默) Composition Guide: FreeAssociation Further Reading: “Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?” by Mark Edmundson Unit Ten “Trivia”by Logan Pearsall Smith Literary Device: Epiphany(顿悟) CompositionGuide: Ironic Turn of Mealxing Further Reading: “The Note-Books of Samuel Butler” by Samuel Butler Unit Eleven “Thomas Hobbes”by Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Literary Devices: Metonymy and Synecdoche(换喻与提喻) Composition Guide: Biographical Essay FurtherReading: “William James”by John Jay Chapman Unit Twelve “Disaster Always Waits on Early Wit” by Samuel Johnson Literary Device: Parallelism(排比) Composition Guide: Semantic or Concept Map Further Reading: “Domestick greatness unattainable” by Samuel Johnson Appendix