上篇 英国诗歌
The Middle Ages
Unit 1 Geoffrey Chaucer
Text: The Canterbury Tales: The General Prologue (Excerpt)
The 16th to the 18th Century
Unit 2 William Shakespeare
Textl: Sonnet
Text2: Sonnet
Unit 3 John Donne
Text: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Unit 4 John Milton
Textl: Paradise Lost (Excerpt of Book Four)
Text:2 When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
Unit 5 Thomas Gray
Text: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
The Romantic Period
Unit 6 Robert Bums
Textl: A Red Red Rose
Text2: Auld Lang Syne
Unit 7 William Blake
Textl: The Sick Rose
Text2: The Tyger
Unit 8 William Wordsworth
Text: Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintem Abbey on Revisiting the Banks of the
Wye During a Tour, July 13
Unit 9 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Text: Kubla Khan Or a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment
Unit 10 George Gordon Byron
Text 1: She Walks in Beauty
Text2: On the Castle of Chillon
Unit 11 Percy Bysshe Shelley
Text 1: Ode to the West Wind
Text2: Ozymandias
Unit 12 John Keats
Text: Ode on a Grecian Urn
The Victorian Age
Unit 13 Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Text: Sonnets from the Portuguese (21)
Unit 14 Alfred Tennyson
Text: Ulysses
Unit 15 Robert Browning
Textl: My Last Duchess
Text2: Meeting at Night
The 20th Century
Unit 16 William Butler Yeats
Textl: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Text2: Sailing to Byzantium
Unit 17 W.H. Auden
Text: Musee des Beaux Arts
Unit 18 Seamus Heaney
Textl: Clearances In Memoriam M. K. H., 1911
Text2: Punishment
下篇 美国诗歌
Transcendentalism and American Poetry of the 19th Century
Unit 19 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Text: Days
Unit 20 Edgar Allan Poe
Textl: To Helen
Text2: Annabel Lee
Unit 21 Walt Whitman
Text 1: Song of Myself (Excerpt)
Text2: O Captain! My Captain
Unit 22 Emily Dickinson
Textl: 712 (Because I could not stop for Death) Text2: 258 (There's a certain Slant of light)
Modern American Poetry
Unit 23 Robert Frost
Textl: The Road Not Taken
Text2: Nothing Gold Can Stay
Unit 24 Wallace Stevens
Textl: Anecdote of the Jar
Text2: The Snow Man
Unit 25 William Carlos Williams
Text: Spring and All
Unit 26 Ezra Pound
Textl: In a Station of the Metro
Text2: The River-Merchant^ Wife: A Letter
Unit 27 T. S. Eliot
Text: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Unit 28 Langston Hughes
Textl: The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Text2: A Dream Deferred
Postmodern and Contemporary American Poetry
Unit 29 Elizabeth Bishop
Text: The Fish
Unit 30 Allen Ginsberg
Text: Howl (Excerpt)
Unit 31 Gary Snyder
Text: I Went into the Maverick Bar
Unit 32 Sylvia Plath
Text: Lady Lazarus

张跃军主编的《英美经典诗歌选读》主要是针对国内高校英语专业学生文学方向专业课程编写的教材，旨在提高学生的英美文学鉴赏能力，尤其是对英美诗歌鉴赏能力。同时，本书也可作为高校相关通识课程的教材，供非英语专业但对文学、诗歌鉴赏感兴趣的学生学习。本书将英国诗歌和美国诗歌分开，以上下篇的形式呈现，每篇根据诗人所处时代排序，并作粗略的时代划分。上下篇分别有18节和14节，每节包含诗人简介、所选诗歌文本、文本注释、作品分析、思考题、中译文。