Part OneExperiencing 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 Poetry-reading Courses

3.2 Features of This Book

3.3 Tentative Syllabi for English Poetry-reading Courses

Part TwoSelected Readings in British and American Poetry

1．Geoffrey Chaucer(1343-1400)

Tbe 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)

Tbe Faerie Queene

The First Booke

Amoretti

Sonnet 75

5．William Shakespeare(1564-1616)

Sonnet 18

Sonnet 73

Sonnet 116

6．Thomas Campion(1567-1620)

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 Herrick(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(fobn 6.51.I am tbe 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 ofthe 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's-Self I Sing

Song of Myself[Sections 1-2,5-6,10-11,24]

O Captain!My Captain!

28．Mathew Arnold(1822-1888)

Dover Beach

29．Emily Dickinson(1830-1886)

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 One-and-Twenty

32．William 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．William Carlos Williams(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 Tbe Cantos

38．H.D.(Hilda Doolittle)(1886-1961)

Sea Rose

Pear Tree

Oread

Helen

39．T.S.Eliot(1888-1965)

The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock

40．e.e.cummings(1894-1962)

l(a

[old age sticks]

41．Hart Crane(1899-1932)

Paraphrase

Voyages Ⅱ

42．Langston Hughes(1902-1967)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Harlem

43．W.H.Auden(1907-1973)

As I Walked Out One Evening

Musée 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(1932-1963)

Mirror

Daddy

52．Don Byrd(1944- )

The Last Day of the War

53．Perrie Joris(1946- )

This Afternoon Dante

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