Chapter 1 Types of Poetry
Anonymous(Mediaeval Ballad)
The Twa Corbies
william Blake(1757-1827)
The Sick Rose
Robert Burns(1759-1796)
Oh,My Love Is Like a Red,Red Rose
Geoffrey Chaucer(13427-1400)
From The Canterbury Tales
Emily Dickinson(1830-1886)
This is my letter to the World
I heard a Fly buzz-when I died
Robert Frost(1874-1963)
The Oven Bird
Robert Herrick(1591-1674)
To the Virgin:To Make Much of Time
Gerard Manley Hopkins(1844-1889)
Pied Beauty
John Keats(1795-1821)
La Belie Dame Sans Merci:A Ballad
To Autumn
Thomas Nashe(1567-1601)
Spring,the Sweet Spring
wilfred Owen(1893-1918)
Dulce et Decorum est
Alexander Pope(1688-1744)
From The Rape of the Lock
John Crowe Ransom(1888-1974)
Bells for J ohn Whiteside’s Daughter
Theodore Roethke(1908-1963)
Root Cellar
William Shakespeare(1564-1616)
Spring
Winter
Edmund Spenser(1552m1599)
From Amoretti
Sonnet 1
Sonnet 75
Walt Whitman(1819-1892)
A Noiseless Patient Spider
Richard Wilbur(1921-)
Mind
William Wordsworth(1770-1850)
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
The Solitary Reaper
William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)
The Lake Isle of InniSfree
Chapter 2 Speaker and Tone
Morris Bishop(1893-1975)
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William Blake(1757-1827)
The Chimney Sweeper(Songs of InnocencP)
The Chimney Sweeper(Songs of Experience)
The Clod&the Pebble
Ann Bradstreet(16127-1672)
The Author to Her Book
e.e.cummings(1894-1963)
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W.H.Davies(1871-1940)
The Villain
Emily Dickinson(1830m1886)
Mueh Madness iS divinest Sense
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-
Chapter 3 Fisures of Speech(1)
Chapter 4 Figures of Speech(2)
Chapter 5 Imagery
Chapter 6 Sound
Chapter 7 Metrics
Chapter 8 Meaning
Chapter 9 Form
Poems for Further StudY
GIossary
Biosraphies of the Poets
Index of Poets and Titles
Cited References