CONTENTS 1
Unit One The Value of Poetry 1
Unit Two Rhythm,Meter and Rhyme 5
Unit Three Epic 10
Beowulf 11
John Milton:Paradise Lost 15
Unit Four Ballad 22
Get Up and Bar the Door 23
Robert Burns:A Red,Red Rose 27
Unit Five Heroic Couplet 30
Geoffrey Chaucer:The Pardoner's Tale(Excerpt) 32
Alexander Pope:An Essay on Criticism(Excerpt) 45
Unit Six Sonnet 50
Thomas Wyatt:Farewell,Love 52
Henry Howard,Earl of Surrey:The Soote Season 55
Edmund Spenser:Amoretti Sonnet 70 58
William Shakespeare:Sonnet 18 61
Sonnet 29 62
Sonnet 73 64
John Donne:Death Be Not Proud 66
John Milton:On His Blindness 68
William Wordsworth:Earth Has Not Anything to Show More Fair 72
George Gordon Byron:Sonnet on Chillon 74
John Keats:On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 77
Elizabeth Barrett Browning:Sonnets From the Portuguese 43 79
Christina Georgina Rossetti:Remember 81
Algernon Charles Swinburne:Cor Cordium 83
Unit Seven Blank Verse 85
Christopher Marlowe 86
William Shakespeare:Hamlet's Soliloquy 89
William Wordsworth:Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey 93
Unit Eight Elegy 97
Thomas Gray:Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 99
Alfred Tennyson:In Memoriam(CXXX) 103
Unit Nine Ode 106
Percy Bysshe Shelley:Ode to the West Wind 108
John Keats:Ode on a Grecian Urn 116
Unit Ten Dramatic Monologue 122
Alfred Tennyson:Ulysses 125
Robert Browning:My Last Duchess 130
Thomas Stearns Eliot:The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock 138
Unit Eleven Miscellaneously Patterned Poems 150
John Donne:Song:Go and Catch a Falling Star 152
William Blake:The Chimney-Sweeper 156
The Tyger 157
William Wordsworth:The Daffodils 160
The Lost Love 162
Samuel Taylor Coleridge:Kubla Khan 165
George Gordon Byron:Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 169
Don Juan:The Isles of Greece 173
Robert Browning:Meeting at Night 180
Parting at Morning 181
Algernon Charles Swinburne:A Child's Laughter 182
Alfred Edward Housman:Is My Team Ploughing 185
Unit Twelve Free Verse 188
Poetical Books in The Bible:The Song of Solomon 190
Matthew Arnold:Dover Beach 193
William Butler Yeats:The Second Coming 198
Wystan Hugh Auden:Musee Des Beaux Arts 203
Ted Hughes:The Thought-Fox 206
References 210