Part One:Experiencing British and American Poetry
Ⅰ Reading Poetry:A Case Study
1.1 Poetry Delights and Instructs
1.2 Poetry Communicates Experience
1.3 Poetry Is the Art of Saying Much in Little
1.4 Deceptive Simplicity
1.5 Human Subjects Th rough Natural Objects
1.6 The Sound Must Seem an Echo to the Sense
1.7 The Representation of the Terrible ActuaIities of Life in a New Way
Ⅱ The Art of Poetry
2.1 TVpes of Poetry:Lyric,Narrative and Dramatic
2.2 Rhythm and Metre
2.3 Figurative Language
2.4 Allegory and Symbol
2.5 Stanzaic Forms
2.6 Reading Poetry
Ⅲ Using This Book
3.1 As the Base for a Cou rse
3.2 As a Textbook
3.3 Tentative Syllabi
3.3.1 Reading Poetry(for English Major)
3.3.2 Selected Readings in British & American Poetry(for Non English Majors)
Part Two:An Annotated Anthology of British and American Poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer(1340-1400)
Thomas Wyatt(1503-1542)
Henry Howard,Earl of Surrey(1517-1547)
Edmund Spenser(1552-1599)
William Shakespeare(1564-1616)
Thomas Campion(1567-1620)
John Donne(1572-1631)
Ben Jonson(1572-1637)
Robert Herrick(1591-1674)
George Herbert(1593-1633)
John Milton(1608-1674)
Anne Bradstreet(1612-1672)
Andrew Marvell(1621-1678)
William Blake(1757-1827)
William Wordsworth(1770-1850)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834)
Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822)
John Keats(1795-1821)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807-1882)
EdgarAllan Poe(1809-1849)
Alfred,Lord Tennyson(1809-1892)
Robert Browning(1812-1889)
Walt Whitman(1819-1892)
MathewArnold(1822-1888)
Emily Dickinson(1830-1886)
William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)
Robert Frost(1874-1963)
Wallace Stevens(1879-1955)
William Carlos Williams(1883-1963)
Ezra Pound(1885-1972)
H.D.(HiIda Doolittle,1886-1961)
T.S.Eliot(1888-1965)
Hart Crane(1899-1932)
Langston Hughes(1902-1967)
W.H.Auden(1907-1973)
Charles Olson(1910-1970)
Allen Ginsberg(1926-1997)
Anne Sexton(1928-1974)
Sylvia Plath(1932-1963)
Pierre loris(b.1946)
Don Byrd(b.1 944)
Works Cited
Glossary of Literary Terms
Online Resources