Geoffrey Chaucer 1
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2.诗歌选读 2
The Canterbury Tales——The General Prologue（Middle English Version） 2
William Dunbar 3
1.诗人及诗歌介绍 3
2.诗歌选读 3
Tydings Fra The Sessioun 3
Edmund Spenser 5
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2.诗歌选读 6
The Faerie Queene BOOK 5 Canto 9 6
William Shakespeare 12
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Sonnet 35 13
Sonnet 49 13
Sonnet 134 14
Sir John Davies 15
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2.诗歌选读 15
Sonnet Ⅶ 15
John Donne 17
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Satyre Ⅱ 17
Satyre Ⅳ 21
Robert Herrick 25
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Upon Case 26
Edward Taylor 27
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An Advocate with the Father 27
Daniel Defoe 30
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2.诗歌选读 31
Hymn to the Pillory 31
Jonathan Swift 34
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2.诗歌选读 34
The Answer 34
Alexander Pope 40
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2.诗歌选读 40
Verbatim from Boileau 40
William Cowper 42
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The Cause Won 43
Robert Burns 44
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Extempore in the Court Of Session 45
William Wordsworth 46
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Upon the Punishment of Death 47
George Gordon Byron 50
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2.诗歌选读 51
Don Juan，Canto 10 51
Percy Bysshe Shelley 52
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To the Lord Chancellor 53
Ralph Waldo Emerson 57
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Hamatreya 57
Earth Song 58
John Greenleaf Whittier 61
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The Gallows 62
Robert Browning 66
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2.诗歌选读 67
The Ring and the Book 67
Walter Whitman 69
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2.诗歌选读 70
Thought 70
You Felons on Trial in Courts 70
Emily Dickinson 71
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2.诗歌选读 72
I Read my Sentence——Steadily— 72
I Had Some Things that I Called Mine— 72
Lewis Carroll 74
1.诗人及诗歌介绍 74
2.诗歌选读 74
The Barrister’s Dream 74
Thomas Hardy 77
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2.诗歌选读 78
The Mock Wife 78
Oscar Wilde 80
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2.诗歌选读 81
The Ballad of Reading Gaol 81
Alfred Edward Housman 83
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Oh Who Is That Young Sinner 83
Rudyard Kipling 85
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2.诗歌选读 86
The Reeds of Runnymede 86
Edgar Lee Masters 88
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2.诗歌选读 88
“Butch” Weldy 88
State’s Attorney Fallas 89
Carl Hamblin 90
Judge Selah Lively 91
William Henry Davies 92
1.诗人及诗歌介绍 92
2.诗歌选读 92
The Inquest 92
Walter John de la Mare 94
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2.诗歌选读 95
In the Dock 95
Carl Sandburg 96
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2.诗歌选读 97
The Lawyers Know Too Much 97
William Carlos Williams 98
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2.诗歌选读 99
Impromptu：The Suckers 99
D.H.Lawrence 103
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2.诗歌选读 104
Auto-da-Fe 104
Edna St.Vincent Millay 106
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2.诗歌选读 106
Justice Denied in Massachusetts 106
Stephen Vincent Benet 109
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2.诗歌选读 109
John Brown’s Body 109
Arthur Wen Winters 117
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2.诗歌选读 117
To Edwin V.McKenzie：On his Defense of David V.McKenzie 117
Langston Hughes 119
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2.诗歌选读 120
The Town of Scottsboro 120
William Empson 121
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2.诗歌选读 121
Legal Fiction 121
Wystan Hugh Auden 123
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Law like Love 123
The Hidden Law 126
J.V.Cunningham 127
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The Judge is Fury 127
Roy Fuller 129
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The Verdict 129
Muriel Rukeyser 131
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2.诗歌选读 131
The Trial 131
Dylan Thomas 134
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2.诗歌选读 135
The Hand That Signed the Paper 135
John Berryman 136
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Dream Song 86 136
Weldon Kees 138
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After the Tnal 138
David Ignatow 141
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2.诗歌选读 142
The Law has Reasons 142
John Ciardi 143
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E Is for Earwig 143
Robert Lowell 145
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2.诗歌选读 146
Law 146
Mona Van Duyn 147
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The Poet Reconciles Herself to Politicians 147
Alan Dugan 149
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Defendant 149
Anthony Evan Hecht 150
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Death the Judge 150
A.R.Ammons 152
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Strip 55 152
James Arlington Wright 155
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At the Executed Murderer’s Grave 156
W.S.Merwin 159
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2.诗歌选读 159
Tool 159
John Ashbery 161
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Ignorance of the Law is No Excuse 162
Philip Levine 163
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2.诗歌选读 163
Possession 163
John Hollander 165
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Tailor-Made 165
Thom Gunn 167
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2.诗歌选读 167
Legal Reform 167
X.J.Kennedy 169
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2.诗歌选读 170
Police Court Saturday Morning 170
Charles Wright 171
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2.诗歌选读 171
What I am Trying to Say 171
Charles Simic 173
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At the Night Court 173
Stephen Dunn 175
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Criminal 175
Ted Kooser 177
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The Witness 177
Seamus Heaney 179
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Punishment 180
The Stone Verdict 181
Robert L.Hass 183
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2.诗歌选读 183
The Woods in New Jersey 183
Lawrence Joseph 185
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2.诗歌选读 185
Admissions against Interest 185
Brad E.Leithauser 189
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2.诗歌选读 189
Law Clerk，1979 189
Martin Espada 196
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2.诗歌选读 197
Mi Vida： Wings of Fright 197
Glyn Maxwell 199
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The Sentence 199
Seth Abramson 201
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2.诗歌选读 201
If You Ask Your Attorney to Be Concise 201
William Makepeace Thackeray 203
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2.诗歌选读 203
Jacob Omnium’s Hoss 203
Sir William Blackstone 209
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2.诗歌选读 209
A Lawyer’s Farewell to his Muse 209
Anonymous 214
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To a Sparrow 214
A.C.Gordon 217
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Law at our Boarding House 217
John Godfrey Saxe 220
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2.诗歌选读 220
The Lawyer’s Suit Am——“For the Lack of Gold.” 220
Love and Law：A legend of Boston 222
Anonymous 226
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2.诗歌选读 226
To the Lawyer 226
Anonymous 229
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Law-Love 229
Sheppard Barclay 231
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2.诗歌选读 231
In Woman’s Praise 231
George Outram 234
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2.诗歌选读 234
The Law of Marriage 234
Edward Moore 237
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2.诗歌选读 237
Justice and the Lawyer 237
Anonymous 241
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2.诗歌选读 241
The Devil and the Lawyers 241
Benjamin Franklin 243
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Poor Richards’ Opinion 243
Anonymous 245
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2.诗歌选读 245
Commonwealth vs.Mcafel 245
参考文献 247
附录 254
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附录2.西方主要法律诗歌及其作者 257
附录3.西方关于法律文学的主要学术论著 263
附录4.通过文学了解法律：美国律师协会推荐的法律文学必读书 288
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