Part One Experiencing British and American Poetry
Chapter 1 Reading Poetry with Case Studies
1.1 Poetry Delights and Instructs
1.2 Poetry Communicates Experience
1.3 Saying Much in Little
1.4 Deceptive Simplicity
1.5 Lucid Symbolism
1.6 Sound and Sense
1.7 Dark Side of Robert Frost
Chapter 2 The Elements of Poetry
2.1 Types of Poetry: Lyric， Narrative and Dramatic
2.2 Rhythm and Meter
2.3 Figurative Language
2.4 Allegory and Symbol
2.5 Stanza Forms
2.6 Reading Poetry
Chapter 3 How to Use This Book
3.1 As a Textbook for English Poetryreading Courses.
3.2 Features of This Book
3.3 Tentative Syllabi for English Poetryreading Courses

Part Two Selected Readings in British and American Poetry
1.Geoffrey Chaucer （1343-1400）
The Canterbury Tales
From The General Prologue
2.Thomas Wyatt （1503-1542）
The Long Love， That in My Thought Doth Harbor
3.Henry Howard， Earl of Surrey （1517-1547）
Love， That Doth Reign and Live within My Thought
4.Edmund Spenser （1552-1599）
The Faerie Queene
The First Booke
Amoretti
Sonnet 75
5.William Shakespeare （1564-1616）
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 73
Sonnet 116
6.Thomas Campion （156-71620）
There Is a Garden in Her Face
7.Psalms
Psalm 1
Psalm 23
8.John Donne （1572-1631）
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Holy Sonnet VII
Holy Sonnet X
9.Ben Jonson （1572-1637）
On My First Son
Song: To Celia （I）
Song: To Celia （ II ）
10.Robert Herriek （1591-1674）
To the Virgins， to Make Much of Time
11.George Herbert （1593-1633）
Virtue
12.John Milton （1608-1674）
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
Paradise Lost （The Invocation）
13.Anne Bradstreet （1612-1672）
To My Dear and Loving Husband
The Author to Her Book
14.Andrew Marvell （1621-1678）
To His Coy Mistress
15.Edward Taylor （ca.1642-1729）
Meditation 8 （John 6.Yl.I am the Living Bread.）
16.Thomas Gray （1716-1771）
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
17.William Blake （1757-1827）
The Lamb （From Songs of Innocence）
The Tyger （From Songs of Experience）
London （From Songs of Experience）
18.William Wordsworth （1770-1850）
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Composed upon Westminster Bridge， September 3， 1802.
Lines （Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey on
Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour，
July 13， 1798）
19.Samuel Taylor Coleridge （1772-1834）
Kubla Khan Or a Vision in a Dream.A Fragment
20.Percy Bysshe Shelley （1792-1822）
Ozymandias
Ode to the West Wind
21.John Keats （1795-1821）
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
To Autumn
22.Ralph Waldo Emerson （1803-1882）
Each And All
Concord Hymn （Sung at the Completion of the Battle
Monument， July 4， 1837）
Brahma
Days
23.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow （1807-1882）
A Psalm of Life
24.Edgar Allan Poe （1809-1849）
To Helen
The Raven
Annabel Lee
25.Alfred， Lord Tennyson （1809-1892）
Break， Break， Break
The Eagle Fragment
Crossing the Bar
26.Robert Browning （1812-1889）
Meeting at Evening
Parting At Morning
My Last Duchess
27.Walt Whitman （1819-1892）
One'sSelf I Sing
Song of Myself [Sections 12， 56， 1011， 24]
O Captain！ My Captain！
28.Mathew Arnold （1822-1888）
Dover Beach
29.Emily Dickinson （18301886）
I'm Nobody！ Who Are You? （260）
"Hope" is the Thing With Feathers （314）
The Soul Selects Her Own Society （409）
Because I Could Not Stop for Death （479）
This is My Letter to the World （519）
I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died （591）
Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant （1263）
My Life Closed Twice Before It's Close （1773）
30.Thomas Hardy （1840-1928）
Hap
The Darkling Thrush
Ah， Are You Digging On My Grave?
31.A.E.Housman （1859-1936）
Loveliest of Trees， the Cherry Now
To an Athlete Dying Young
When I Was OneandTwenty
32.W'dliam Butler Yeats （1865-1939）
Easter 1916
The Second Coming
Sailing to Byzantium
33.Robert Frost （1874-1963）
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
The Road Not Taken
Mowing
Mending Wall
Home Burial
34.Carl Sandburg （1878-1967）
Chicago
Cool Tombs
The People， Yes
35.Wallace Stevens （1879-1955）
The Snow Man
The Emperor of Ice Cream
Anecdote of the Jar
36.W'dliam Carlos W'dliams （1883-1963）
Spring and All
The Red Wheelbarrow
This Is Just To Say
From Paterson
Preface
37.Ezra Pound （1885-1972）
In a Station of the Metro
From The Cantos
38.H.D.（Hilda Doolittle） （1886-1961）
Sea Rose
Pear Tree
Oread
Helen
39.T.S.Eliot （1888-1965）
The Love Song ofJ.Alfred Prufrock
40.e.e.cummings （1894-1962）
[old age sticks]
41.Hart Crane （1899-1932）
Paraphrase
Voyages II
42.Langston Hughes （19021967）
The Negro Speaks of Rivers Harlem
43.W.H.Auden （1907-1973）
As I Walked Out One Evening
Musee Des Beaux Arts
44.Charles Olson （1910-1970）
From THE MAXIMUS POEMS
45.Elizabeth Bishop （1911-1970）
Brazil， January 1， 1502
46.Robert Lowell （1917-1977）
For the Union Dead
47.Allen Ginsberg （1926-1997）
A Supermarket in California
48.Anne Sexton （1928-1974）
The Black Art
The Sun
Oysters
49.Ted Hughes （1930-1998）
Hawk Roosting
50.Gary Snyder （1930-）
Anasazi
51.Sylvia Plath （19321963）
Mirror
Daddy
52.Don Byrd （1944-）
The Last Day of the War
53.PerrieJoris （1946-）
This Afternoon Dante
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