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Part One Introduction

Brief Introduction to English and American Poetry ..........................2

Ⅰ What Is Poetry? ...................................................................................2

Ⅱ The Function of Poetry .......................................................................4

Ⅲ Major Types of Poetry ........................................................................5

Ⅳ Elements of Poetry ..............................................................................8

Ⅴ How to Read a Poem? ......................................................................18

Part Two English Poetry

Chapter 1 Edmund Spenser ............................................................22

Sonnet 34 ..................................................................................................... 23

Sonnet 75 .....................................................................................................26

Chapter 2 Christopher Marlowe ......................................................30

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love ..................................................30

Chapter 3 William Shakespeare .....................................................39

Sonnet 18 ......................................................................................................40

Sonnet 29 .....................................................................................................43

Chapter 4 Ben Jonson .....................................................................47

Song: To Celia ..............................................................................................48

Chapter 5 John Donne ...................................................................52

The Flea ......................................................................................................... 53

Chapter 6 Robert Herrick ................................................................59

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time ................................................59

To Daffodils ..................................................................................................63

Chapter 7 George Herbert ..............................................................66

Virtue ............................................................................................................. 67

Chapter 8 John Milton ....................................................................73

Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint ........................................ 74

Chapter 9 William Blake ..................................................................80

The Tyger ...................................................................................................... 81

Chapter 10 Robert Burns................................................................86

A Red, Red Rose.......................................................................................... 87

My Heart’s in the Highlands ...................................................................90

Chapter 11 William Wordsworth...................................................93

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud ...............................................................94

She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways ............................................ 97

Chapter 12 George Gordon Byron................................................101

When We Two Parted ........................................................................... 102

She Walks in Beauty ................................................................................106

Chapter 13 Percy Bysshe Shelley................................................... 110

Ode to the West Wind ............................................................................111

A Song ..........................................................................................................123

Chapter 14 John Keats...................................................................126

On the Grasshopper and Cricket ..........................................................127

To Autumn ................................................................................................. 129

Chapter 15 Alfred Tennyson..........................................................136

Break, Break, Break ....................................................................................137

Chapter 16 Robert Browning......................................................... 141

Home-Thoughts, from Abroad ............................................................. 142

Meeting at Night ...................................................................................... 146

Chapter 17 William Butler Yeats...................................................150

The Lake Isle of Innisfree ........................................................................ 151

When You Are Old ...................................................................................153

Part Three American Poetry

Chapter 1 William Cullen Bryant ..................................................158

To a Waterfowl .......................................................................................... 159

Chapter 2 Edgar Allan Poe ............................................................166

To My Mother ............................................................................................167

Chapter 3 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ..................................... 171

A Psalm of Life ...........................................................................................172

Chapter 4 Walt Whitman ...............................................................179

O Captain! My Captain! .........................................................................180

Chapter 5 Emily Dickinson ...........................................................184

I Died for Beauty ....................................................................................... 185

Chapter 6 Ezra Pound ....................................................................190

In a Station of the Metro ........................................................................190

Chapter 7 Robert Frost .................................................................193

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.......................................... 194

Chapter 8 Carl Sandburg ..............................................................199

Fog ...............................................................................................................200

Grass .......................................................................................................... 202

Chapter 9 Thomas Stearns Eliot ..................................................205

Preludes ...................................................................................................... 206

Chapter 10 Hilda Doolittle.............................................................212

Oread ...........................................................................................................213

Chapter 11 Hart Crane................................................................... 215

To Brooklyn Bridge ....................................................................................217

References ..........................................................................................222