以下的作品符合AP考纲的要求,基本涵盖了16世纪到现当代的不同体裁的作品。当然,大家也可以根据自己的兴趣来选择。只要是经过时间考验的经典作品,都可以阅读学习。而且这些作品的语言难度不同,开始可以选择语言简易一些的来读,比如 A Doll’s House, The Color Purple等等。
诗歌:
Edmund Spencer: Sonnets
Shakespeare: Sonnets
John Milton: Paradise Lost
John Donne: Valediction Forbidden Mourning / Go and Catch a Falling Star
Alexander Pope: Human
Thomas Grey: Elegy Written in a Grave Yard
William Wordsworth: A Solitary Reaper
Percy Shelley: Ode to the West Wind
Lord Byron: She Walks in Beauty
John Keats: To Autumn / On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
Mathew Arnold: Dover Beach
W. B. Yeats: When You are Old /Salley Gardens /The Lake Isle of Innisfree/The Wild Swans at Coole/ The Second Coming / Sailing to Byzantium
Emily Dickinson: Because I could not Stop for Death/ I heard a Fly Buzz When I died/ The Brain is Wider than the Sky/ Water is Taught by Thirst
Walt Whitman: I Hear America Singing
Robert Frost: Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening/ Mending Wall/ Aquainted With the Night
Elizabeth Bishop: One Art / The Imaginary Iceberg戏剧:
William Shakespeare: Excerpt from Romeo and Juliet/ “The Balcony Scene”
William Shakespeare: Excerpt from Hamlet “To be or Not to be” Soliloquy
William Shakespeare: Macbeth
Henrik Ibsen : A Doll’s House
Susan Glaspell: Trifles
Sophocles: Antigone小说:
Thomas Hardy: Tess of Dur’ Beeville’s
Jane Austin: Pride and Prejudice
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
Nathaniel Hawthorn: The Scarlet Letter
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Earnest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms
Kate Chopin: The Awakening
Henry James: The Turn of the Screw
Alice Walker: The Color Purple
Amy Tan: Joy Luck Club
短篇小说:
James Joys: Araby
Virginia Woolf: The Lady in the Looking Glass
Nathaniel Hawthorn: The Minister’s Black Veil
Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour
Ernest Hemingway: In Another Country
William Faulkner: A Rose for Emily
散文:
Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal
Francis Bacon: Of Studies
Thomas De Quincy: On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature / Self-reliance
Henry David Thoreau: Walden / On Civil Disobedience