本书内容由英诗选辑、诗学文选、诗歌术语汇集和附录四部分组成。英诗选辑，收录自中世纪到后现代主义时代、由Geoffrey Chaucer至Seamus Heaney，75位用英文写作的英国、美国、爱尔兰、加拿大诗人的132首诗作，附有文间注(解答文字理解方面的疑难)和脚注(解释相关背景知识)；诗学文选，按时间先后顺序收录自Aristotle到Ihab Hassan等古今批评家的10篇诗论，附有脚注；诗歌术语汇集，收录常用诗学术语及简明解释近200条；附录，诗人小传、英语诗歌大事记、模拟试卷。

Poetry and Poetics Composed in English：A Reader(《英诗及诗学文选》)是集作品、诗学批评文选、诗学常识于一体的大学英语专业教材，适合高年级本科生、研究生英诗选读和英诗及诗学批评等课程使用，亦是一部方便英诗爱好者研读的读本。

Part One

Poetic Works Composed in English

The Middle Ages

 Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343--1400)

Gentilesse

 Middle English Lyric (ca. 1100--1500)

Western Wind

 Popular Ballads (ca. 1200--1700)

Sir Patrick Spans

Lord Eandall

rhomas Wyatt and Elizabethans

 Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503--1542)

Farewell, Love

 Sir Philip Sidney (1554--1586)

My True Love Hath My Heart (Song from Arcadia)

 Edmund Spencer (1552--1599)

Sonnet 35 (My Hungry Eyes through Greedy Covetize)

Sonnet 75 (One Day I Wrote Her Name upon the Strand)

 Christopher Marlowe (1564--1593)

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

 William Shakespeare (1564--1616)

Sonnet 18 (Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?)

Sonnet 29 (When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes)

Sonnet 73 (That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold)

All the World Is a Stage

The Phoenix and the Turtle

Threnos

 Thomas Nashe (1567--1601)

Spring, the Sweet Spring

 Anonymous Lyrics

Back and Side Go Bare, Go Bare (1575)

Come Away, Come, Sweet Love! (1597)

 John Donne (1572--1631)

Elegy 19: Going to Bed

The Flea

Song (Go and Catch a Falling Star)

 Ben Johnson (1572--1637)

Song: To Celia

 Robert Herrick (1591--1674)

Cherry-Ripe

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

 Thomas Carew (1595--1640)

He That Loves a Rosy Cheek

 George Herbert (1593--1633)

The Windows

The Seventeenth Century

The Eighteenth Century

The Romantic Period

The Victorian Period

American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century

The Angio-American Modern Period

The Anglo-American-Canadian Postmodern Period

Part Two

Selected Criticism on Poetry

Part Three

A Glossary of Poetic Terms