本书力求将学术性、知识性和观赏性融为一体，在点评诗作语言、内容、技巧的同时，强调人文、社会、哲学、宗教等学科知识的接受，不仅是一个简捷便利的读本，同时也是美国诗歌研究者有价值的参考资料。起自安妮·布雷特里特，止于西尔维亚·普拉斯，共选诗人23位，诗作54首，基本囊括美国诗坛上的主要诗人和他(她)们的代表诗作。本书面向英语本科三、四年级的学生，也适用于同等英语水平的广大读者，既可用作教材、教辅，也是闲暇阅读的好材料。通过该书的学习或阅读，读者可以“尝一脔而知全味”，也可以此书为“敲门砖”，登堂入室，在英语诗歌的殿堂里寻宝。

Anne Bradstreet

  Some Verses on the Burning of Our House

  To My Dear and Loving Husband

  The Flesh and the Spirit

Philip Frenean

 The Wild Honey Suckle

 The Indian Burying Ground

William Cullen Bryant

 The Yellow Violet

 To a Waterfowl

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 A Psalm of Life

 Excelsior

 My Lost Youth

Edgar Allan Poe

 Israfel

 The Raven

 Annabel Lee

Walt Whitman

 O Captain!My Captain!

 Come up from the Field Father

 Spirit That Form’d This Scene

Emily Dickinson

 Success

 I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed

 I’m Nobody!Who Are You?

 Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Richard Cory

 Miniver Cheevy

 Mr．Flood’s Party

Amy Lowell

 Patterns

Robert Frost

 Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening

 Mending Wall

 The Road Not Taken

Carl Sandburg

 Chicago

 The Harbor

Wallace Stevens

The Anecdotes of the Jar

The Idea of Order at Key West

 The Emperor of Ice--Cream

William Carlos Williams

 The Red Wheelbarrow

 Spring and A1l

Ezra Pound

 A Pact

 In a Station of the Metro

E．E．Cummings

 In Just

 I(a

 0 sweet spontaneous

Archibald MacLeish

 Ars Poetica

Allen Tate

 Ode to the Confederate Dead

Langston Hughes

 The Negro Speaks of Rivers

 Ballad of the Landlord

 Mother to Son

Robert Lowell

 For the Union Dead

 Mr．Edwards and the Spider

Allen Ginsberg

 Howl

James Wright

 Saint Judas

 A Blessing

 In Terror of Hospital Bills

Alllle Sexton

 You，Doctor Martin

 Sylvia’s Death

Sylvia Plath

 Lady Lazarus

 Daddy