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Part One Experiencing British and American Poetry
  Chapter 1 Reading Poetry with Case Studies
   1.1 Poetry Delights and Instructs
   1.2 Poetry Communicates Experience
   1.3 Saying Much in Little
   1.4 Deceptive Simplicity
   1.5 Lucid Symbolism
   1.6 Sound and Sense
   1.7 Dark Side of Robert Frost
  Chapter 2 The Elements of Poetry
   2.1 Types of Poetry: Lyric, Narrative and Dramatic
   2.2 Rhythm and Meter
   2.3 Figurative Language
   2.4 Allegory and Symbol
   2.5 Stanza Forms
   2.6 Reading Poetry
  Chapter 3 How to Use This Book
   3.1 As a Textbook for English Poetry-reading Courses
   3.2 Features of This Book
   3.3 Tentative Syllabi for English Poetry-reading Courses
Part Two Selected Readings in British and American Poetry
  1. Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400)
   The Canterbury Tales From The General Prologue
  2. Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542)
   The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbor
  3. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547)
   Love, That Doth Reign and Live within My Thought
  4. Edmund Spenser (1552–1599)
   The Faerie Queene The First Booke
   Amoretti Sonnet 75
  5. William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
   Sonnet 18
   Sonnet 73
   Sonnet 116
  6. Thomas Campion (1567–1620)
   There Is a Garden in Her Face
  7. Psalms
   Psalm 1
   Psalm 23
  8. John Donne (1572–1631)
   A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
   Holy Sonnet Ⅶ
   Holy Sonnet X
  9. Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
   On My First Son
   Song: To Celia (I)
   Song: To Celia (Ⅱ)
  10. Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
   To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
  11. George Herbert (1593–1633)
   Virtue
  12. John Milton (1608–1674)
   When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
   Paradise Lost (The Invocation)
  13. Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672)
   To My Dear and Loving Husband
   The Author to Her Book
  14. Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
   To His Coy Mistress
  15. Edward Taylor (ca. 1642–1729)
   Meditation 8 (John 6.51. I am the Living Bread.)
  16. Thomas Gray (1716–1771)
   Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
  17. William Blake (1757–1827)
   The Lamb (From Songs of Innocence)
   The Tyger (From Songs of Experience)
   London (From Songs of Experience)
  18. William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
   I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
   Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
   Lines (Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798)
  19. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
   Kubla Khan Or a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment
  20. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
   Ozymandias
   Ode to the West Wind
  21. John Keats (1795–1821)
   On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
   Ode to a Nightingale
   Ode on a Grecian Urn
   To Autumn
  22. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
   Each And All
   Concord Hymn (Sung at the Completion of the Battle Monument, July 4, 1837)
   Brahma
   Days
  23. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
   A Psalm of Life
  24. Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
   To Helen
   The Raven
   Annabel Lee
  25. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
   Break, Break, Break
   The Eagle Fragment
   Crossing the Bar
  26. Robert Browning (1812–1889)
   Meeting at Evening
   Parting At Morning
   My Last Duchess
  27. Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
   One’s-Self I Sing
   Song of Myself [Sections 1-2, 5-6, 10-11, 24]
   O Captain! My Captain!
  28. Mathew Arnold (1822–1888)
   Dover Beach
  29. Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
   I’m Nobody! Who Are You? (260)
   “Hope” is the Thing With Feathers (314)
   The Soul Selects Her Own Society (409)
   Because I Could Not Stop for Death (479)
   This is My Letter to the World (519)
   I Heard a Fly Buzz — When I Died (591)
   Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant – (1263)
   My Life Closed Twice Before It’s Close (1773)
  30. Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
   Hap
   The Darkling Thrush
   Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave?
  31. A. E. Housman (1859–1936)
   Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
   To an Athlete Dying Young
   When I Was One-and-Twenty
  32. William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
   Easter 1916
   The Second Coming
   Sailing to Byzantium
  33. Robert Frost (1874–1963)
   Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
   The Road Not Taken
   Mowing
   Mending Wall
   Home Burial
  34. Carl Sandburg (1878–1967)
   Chicago
   Cool Tombs
   The People, Yes
  35. Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
   The Snow Man
   The Emperor of Ice Cream
   Anecdote of the Jar
  36. William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
   Spring and All
   The Red Wheelbarrow
   This Is Just To Say
   From Paterson Preface
  37. Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
   In a Station of the Metro
   From The Cantos
  38. H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961)
   Sea Rose
   Pear Tree
   Oread
   Helen
  39. T.S. Eliot (1888–1965)
   The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
  40. e. e. cummings (1894–1962)
   l(a
   [old age sticks]
  41. Hart Crane (1899–1932)
   Paraphrase
   Voyages II
  42. Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
   The Negro Speaks of Rivers
   Harlem
  43. W. H. Auden (1907–1973)
   As I Walked Out One Evening
   Musée Des Beaux Arts
  44. Charles Olson (1910–1970)
   From THE MAXIMUS POEMS
  45. Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1970)
   Brazil, January 1, 1502
  46. Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
   For the Union Dead
  47. Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)
   A Supermarket in California
  48. Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
   The Black Art
   The Sun
   Oysters
  49. Ted Hughes (1930–1998)
   Hawk Roosting
  50. Gary Snyder (1930– )
   Anasazi
  51. Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
   Mirror
   Daddy
  52. Don Byrd (1944– )
   The Last Day of the War
  53. Perrie Joris (1946– )
   This Afternoon Dante
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