本书精选39首英美经典诗歌作品，并进行了细致注释、解读和赏析，辅以导学视频、诗歌朗读、译文及课后开放性思考题，旨在帮助读者充分体会英美诗歌发展的轨迹及其不同的特点与风格，从而深刻了解英美文化发展的历史和文化的精髓，以及英美文化与文学的共性和个性。本书是英语专业学生文学教材的重要补充，也可作为非英语专业学生的选修课教材，或可供广大英语文学和诗歌爱好者阅读参考。
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Part One Introduction
Brief Introduction to English and American Poetry
Ⅰ What Is Poetry
Ⅱ The Function of Poetry
Ⅲ Major Types of Poetry
Ⅳ Elements of Poetry
Ⅴ How to Read a Poem
Part Two English Poetry
Chapter 1 Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 34
Sonnet 75
Chapter 2 Christopher Marlowe
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Chapter 3 William Shakespeare
Sonnet 18
Sonnet 29
Chapter 4 Ben Jonson
Song: To Celia
Chapter 5 John Donne
The Flea
Chapter 6 Robert Herrick
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
To Daffodils
Chapter 7 George Herbert
Virtue
Chapter 8 John Milton
Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint
Chapter 9 William Blake
The Tyger
Chapter 10 Robert Burns
A Red, Red Rose
My Heart’s in the Highlands
Chapter 11 William Wordsworth
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
Chapter 12 George Gordon Byron
When We Two Parted
She Walks in Beauty
Chapter 13 Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode to the West Wind
A Song
Chapter 14 John Keats
On the Grasshopper and Cricket
To Autumn
Chapter 15 Alfred Tennyson
Break, Break, Break
Chapter 16 Robert Browning
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
Meeting at Night
Chapter 17 William Butler Yeats
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
When You Are Old
Part Three American Poetry
Chapter 1 William Cullen Bryant
To a Waterfowl
Chapter 2 Edgar Allan Poe
To My Mother
Chapter 3 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm of Life
Chapter 4 Walt Whitman
O Captain! My Captain
Chapter 5 Emily Dickinson
I Died for Beauty
Chapter 6 Ezra Pound
In a Station of the Metro
Chapter 7 Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Chapter 8 Carl Sandburg
Fog
Grass
Chapter 9 Thomas Stearns Eliot
Preludes
Chapter 10 Hilda Doolittle
Oread
Chapter 11 Hart Crane
To Brooklyn Bridge
References