这本教材分为英国诗歌和美国诗歌两个部分，分别选编了英美两国文学各个历史时期具有代表性的重要诗人及其诗歌作品，按诗人出现的先后顺序进行排列。为了加强本教材的可操作性，编者对每位诗人的生平、主要作品、创作思想和艺术特色作了简明的介绍，有助于读者对诗人的了解。对入选的每一首诗，编者也作了简单的介绍，每首诗歌后面都有旨在引导读者理解和鉴赏的思考题，有助于教师在课堂上启发和指导学生对作品进行分析和讨论，有助于提高学生对英语诗歌的理解、分析和欣赏能力。

British Poetry

 Geoffrey Chaucer(1343-1400)

The Canterbury Tales(Excerpts)

 The Popular Ballads

Lord Randall

Sir Patrick Spens

Robin Hood and the Widow's Three Sons

 Edmund Spenser(1552-1599)

Sonnet 54

Sonnet 70

Sonnet 75

 William Shakespeare(1564-1616)

Sonnet 18

Sonnet 29

Sonnet 73

Sonnet 116

 John Donne(1572-1631 )

Song [“Go，and Catch a Falling Star”]

Holy Sonnet 10(“Death，Be Not Proud”)

Holy Sonnet 14(“Batter My Heart”)

 John Milton(1608-1674)

On His Blindness

Paradise Lost(Excerpts)

 Alexander Pope(1688-1744)

An Essay on Criticism(Excerpts)

 William Blake(1757-1827)

The Chimney Sweeper

London

The Sick Rose

 Robert Burns(1759-1796)

A Red，Red Rose

Scots，Wha Hae

For A'That and A' That

 William Wordsworth(1770-1850)

She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways

Composed upon Westminster Bridge September 3，1802

The Solitary Reaper

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

 Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834)

Kubla Khan

 George Gordon Byron(1788-1824)

She Walks in Beauty

Song for the Luddites

So We'll Go No More A-Roving

When a Man Hath No Freedom to Fight for at Home

 Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822)

Ozymandias

Ode to the West Wind

To-[Music，When Soft Voices Die]

 John Keats(1795-1821)

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

Ode to a Nightingale

Ode on a Grecian Urn

To Autumn

 Robert Browning(1812-1889)

My Last Duchess

Home-Thoughts from Abroad

 William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

When You Are Old

The Second Coming

Sailing to Byzantium

Leda and the Swan

 T. S. Eliot(1888-1965)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Preludes

Dylan Thomas(1914-1953)

The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower

Fern Hill

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

 Philip Larkin(1922-1985)

Church Going

Talking in Bed

High Windows

 Ted Hughes(1930-1998)

Wind

Theology

River

American Poetry

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