本书为SSAT考生量身打造，为了便于SSAT考生备考，本书针对SSAT真题进行了以下精心的设计。
本书囊括了SSAT阅读考试中的诗歌的全部题材，以及几乎所有真题考试中出现过的诗歌作者及其代表作品。为了便于读者的理解，本书对每一位诗人都进行了介绍，同时对其代表作品进行了赏析。并针对这一诗人在SSAT真题考试中可能出现的考点进行了解析。全书以ssat阅读的考试素材为主，摒弃以技巧为核心的学习方式，以为读者准备足够的练习，增长足够多的见识，增加其实际能力。

王锐，北美考试宗师级人物，著名美国留学规划专家。国际关系学院国际文化与传播专业高材生，主修英美语言与文学，布莱恩特奖学金获得者。求学期间有辛承蒙著名语言学家吴中东教授的指导，受益良深。
对SSAT，TOEFL，SAT，ACT，GMAT等北美考试教学研究十余年，是这方面名副其实的专家。近年来，致力于英美诗歌鉴赏、文法与写作、文化与翻译、艺术史的研究，深得学术界广泛认可，为我国北美考试教学向专业化过渡打开了一个新的局面。相信不久，同学们就可以欣赏到相关著作。
授课生动流畅，旁征博引，重点突出，直击人心；教学注重理论与实践的结合。应试方法奇特有效，讲究立竿见影，深受同学们的欢迎与喜爱。

Chapter 1 The Anglo-Saxon Period
Beowulf
Chapter 2 The Middle Ages
Geoffrey Chaucer
Chapter 3 The English Renaissance
Thomas More
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Henry Howard
Sir Edmund Spenser
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Francis Bacon
Christopher Marlowe
Sir Walter Raleigh
William Shakespeare
Chapter 4 Inspirations
Thomas Campion
John Donne
Ben Jonson
Robert Herrick
Sir John Suckling
Richard Lovelace
George Herbert
Andrew Marvell
John Milton
Henry Vaughan
John Bunyan
Chapter 5 Criticism and Satire
John Dryden
Aphra Behn
Jonathan Swift
Alexander Pope
Joseph Addison
Chapter 6 Life Goes On
Daniel Defoe
Thomas Gray
Samuel Johnson
James Boswell
Chapter 7 The Natural and the Fantastic
Sir Walter Scott
Samuel Richardson
William Blake
Robert Burns
Mary Wollstonecraft
William Wordsworth
Dorothy Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Robert Southey
Mary Shelley
Walter de La Mare
Chapter 8 Truth and Beauty
George Gordon Lord Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
Chapter 9 Emotional Responses
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Charles Lamb
Jane Austen
William Hazlitt
Charles Dickens
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
William Makepeace Thackeray
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Matthew Arnold
Lewis Carroll
Christina Georgina Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
George Meredith
John Masefield
George Eliot
William Wilkie Collins
Chapter 10 Lasting Impressions
Charles Darwin
Thomas Hardy
Robert Louis Stevenson
Gerard Manley Hopkins
A. E. Housman
W. H. Hudson
Edward Morgan Forster
G. K. Chesterton
Chapter 11 Illusion and Disillusion
George Bernard Shaw
Rupert Brooke
Wilfred Owen
Siegfried Sassoon
Joseph Conrad
William Butler Yeats
Saki (Hector Hugh Monroe)
D. H. Lawrence
James Joyce
T. S. Eliot
Virginia Woolf
Stevie Smith
Katherine Mansfield
Bessie Head
Winston Churchill
Agatha Christie
W. W. Jacobs
Israel Zangwill
Chapter 12 Modern Perspectives
Jotm Boynton Priestley
Bertrand Russell
Dorothy Sayers
Stephen Spender
Henry Reed
Dylan Thomas
George Orwell
Ted Hughes