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本书为其中一册，分为“英国诗歌”和“美国诗歌”两部分，介绍从文艺复兴到21世纪初的英美诗人和诗歌作品，每篇涵盖一个历史时期的诗人和诗歌作品，全面展示英美诗坛的辉煌成就，是英语专业高年级诗歌选读教程的首选教材。

INTRODUCTION TO POETRY AND POETIC THEORY

A BRIEF HISTORY OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN POETRY

BRITISH VERSE

1. The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue (1-18)

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)

2. Sonnet 18

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

3. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

John Donne (1572-1631)

4. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Extract)

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

5. The Little Black Boy

William Blake (1757-1827)

6. She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

7. Ode to the West Wind

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

8. To Autumn

John Keats (1795-1821)

9. My Last Duchess

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

10. Dover Beach

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

11. Break, Break, Break

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

12. The Oxen

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

13. The Windhover: to Christ our Lord

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

14. Sailing to Byzantium

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

15. Piano

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930)

16. Broadcast

Philip Larkin (1922-1985)

17. Long Distance Ⅱ

Tony Harrison (1937- )

18. Here

Ronaid Stuart Thomas (1913-2000)

19. To Paint a Water Lily

Ted Hughes (1930-1998)

20. On the Move

Thorn Gunn (1929-2004)

AMERICAN VERSE

1. To Helen

Edgar Alan Poe (1809-1849)

2. A Noiseless Patient Spider

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

3. Because I Could Not Stop for Death

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

4. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Robert First (1874-1963)

5. Morning at the Window

Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)

6. In a Station of the Metro

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

7. James Watt

Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973)

8. To the Ghost of John Milton

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

9. Anecdote of the Jar

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

10. Poem (As the Cat)

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

11. in Just-

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)

12. The Fish

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

13. Dream Deferred

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

14. The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

Randall Jarell (1914-1965)

15. A Supermarket in California

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

16. Mirror

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

SELECTED COMMENTARIES

1. On William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18

2. On John Donne's A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

3. On William Blake's The Little Black Boy

4. On William Wordsworth's She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways

5. On Robert Browning's My Last Duchess

6. On Thomas Hardy's The Oxen

7. On G. M. Hopkins's The Windhover

8. On W.B. Yeats's Sailing to Byzantium

9. On Philip Larkin's Broadcast

10. On Tony Harrison's Long Distance Ⅱ

11. On R. S. Thomas's Here

12. On Ted Hughes's To Paint a Water Lily

13. On Thom Gunn's On the Move

14. On Walt Whitman's A Noiseless Patient Spider

15. On Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

16. On Carl Sandburg's To the Ghost of John Milton

17. On E.E. Cummings's in Just-

18. On Langston Hughes's Dream Deferred

GLOSSARY OF POETIC TERMS

BIBLIOGRAPHY