INTRODUCTION TO POETRY AND POETIC THEORY
A BRIEF HISTORY OF BRITISH AND AMERICAN POETRY
BRITISH VERSE
1. The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue (1 -18)
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 - 1400)
2. Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare ( 1564 - 1616 )
3. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
John Donne (1572 -1631)
4. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Extract)
Thomas Gray (1716 -1771)
5. The Little Black Boy
William Blake (1757 - 1827 )
6. She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
William Wordsworth (1770 -1850)
7. Ode to the West Wind
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822 )
8. To Autumn
John Keats (1795 -1821)
9. My Last Duchess
Robert Browning (1812 - 1889 )
10. Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888 )
11. Break, Break, Break
Alfred Tennyson (1809 -1892)
12. The Oxen
Thomas Hardy ( 1840 - 1928 )
13. The Windhover: to Christ our Lord
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889 )
14. Sailing to Byzantium
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
15. Piano
David Herbert Lawrence (1885 -1930)
16. Broadcast
Philip Lnrkin (1922 - 1985 )
17. Long Distance II
Tony Harrison (1937 - )
18. Here
Ronald Stuart Thomas ( 1913 - 2000 )
19. To Paint a Water Lily
Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998 )
20. On the Move
Thom Gunn (1929 -2004)
AMERICAN VERSE
1. To Helen
Edgar Alan Poe (1809 - 1849 )
2. A Noiseless Patient Spider
Walt Whitman (1819 - J892)
3. Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
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