| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Table of Contents | 第9-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-22页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to W. H. Auden and His Works | 第11-14页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to W. H. Auden | 第11-13页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Auden's Works | 第13-14页 |
| ·Literature Review of Auden's Works | 第14-18页 |
| ·Literature Review Abroad | 第14-16页 |
| ·Literature Review in China | 第16-18页 |
| ·An Introduction to Reception-Aesthetics | 第18-22页 |
| ·"Blank" Proposed by Wolfgang Iser | 第19-20页 |
| ·"Horizon of Expectations" Proposed by Hans Robert Jauss | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter One Anxiety Shrouded the Blank of the Text | 第22-33页 |
| ·Ruling and Existential Anxiety in Semantic Blank | 第22-27页 |
| ·Anxiety about the Deceiving Superstructure | 第23-25页 |
| ·Anxiety about the National Mood | 第25-27页 |
| ·Social and Personal Anxiety in Emotional Blank | 第27-30页 |
| ·Solitary Melancholy Revealed in Deserted Landscape | 第27-28页 |
| ·Distrust between Partners Embodied through Actual and Imaginary Scenes | 第28-30页 |
| ·Identity Anxiety between Lines | 第30-33页 |
| Chapter Two Readers' Perception of Anxiety through Horizon of Expectations | 第33-44页 |
| ·Different Horizons of Expectations | 第33-38页 |
| ·Cognitive Structure Used in Perceiving the Anxiety about National Decay | 第34-36页 |
| ·Anxiety about the Failure of Self-value of Life Stirred by Similar Experiences | 第36-38页 |
| ·Fusion of Horizons | 第38-44页 |
| ·Affection Interaction in Hopeless Condition | 第38-40页 |
| ·Expectation Frustration in Terms of Homosexuality | 第40-44页 |
| Chapter Three Readers' Influence on Auden's Creation | 第44-56页 |
| ·Influence on the Approaches to Reveal Existential Anxiety | 第44-49页 |
| ·Direct Preaching | 第45-46页 |
| ·Indirect Interaction through Dialogue | 第46-48页 |
| ·Repetition | 第48-49页 |
| ·Influence on the Awareness of Demonstrating the Clear-cut Anxiety | 第49-56页 |
| ·The Change of Poetic Style:Obscure to Lucid | 第50-52页 |
| ·Elimination of Dishonest Poems | 第52-56页 |
| Conclusion | 第56-58页 |
| Works Cited | 第58-61页 |
