Part One Introduction
Brief Introduction to English and American Poetry ..........................2
¢ñ What Is Poetry? ...................................................................................2
¢ò The Function of Poetry .......................................................................4
¢ó Major Types of Poetry ........................................................................5
¢ô Elements of Poetry ..............................................................................8
¢õ 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