BRITISH VERSE 1
1．The Canterbury Tales:General Prologue(1-18)&Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) 1
2．Sonnet 18&William Shakespeare(1564-1616) 5
3．A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning&John Donne(1572-1631) 10
4．Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard(Extract)&Thomas Gray(1716-1771) 16
5．The Little Black Boy&William Blake(1757-1827) 25
6．She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways&William Wordsworth(1770-1850) 29
7．Ode to the West Wind&Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822) 33
8．To Autumn&John Keats(1795-1821) 40
9．My Last Duchess&Robert Browning(1812-1889) 45
10．Dover Beach&Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) 51
11．Break,Break,Break&Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) 56
12．The Oxen&Thomas Hardy(1840-1928) 60
13．The Windhover:to Christ our Lord&Gerard Manley Hopkins(1844-1889) 64
14．Sailing to Byzantium&William Butler Yeats(1865-1939) 68
15．Piano&David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) 74
16．Broadcast&Philip Larkin(1922-1985) 78
17．Long Distance Ⅱ&Tony Harrison (1937- ) 82
18．Here&Ronald Stuart Thomas (1913-2000) 86
19．To Paint a Water Lily&Ted Hughes(1930-1998) 91
20．On the Move&Thom Gunn(1929-2004) 96
AMERICAN VERSE 101
1．To Helen&Edgar Alan Poe(1809-1849) 101
2．A Noiseless Patient Spider&Walt Whitman(1819-1892) 105
3．Because I Could Not Stop for Death&Emily Dickinson(1830-1886) 109
4．Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening&Robert Frost(1874-1963) 113
5．Morning at the Window&Thomas Stearns Eliot(1888-1965) 117
6．In a Station of the Metro&Ezra Pound(1885-1972) 121
7．James Watt&Wystan Hugh Auden(1907-1973) 125
8．To the Ghost of John Milton&Carl Sandburg(1878-1967) 129
9．Anecdote of the Jar&Wallace Stevens(1879-1955) 133
10．Poem(As the Cat)&William Carlos Williams(1883-1963) 137
11．in Just&E.E.Cummings(1894-1962) 141
12．The Fish&Marianne Moore(1887-1972) 145
13．Dream Deferred&Langston Hughes(1902-1967) 150
14．The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner&Randall Jarell (1914-1965) 153
15．A Supermarket in California&Allen Ginsberg(1926-1997) 156
16．Mirror&Sylvia Plath(1932-1963) 161
SELECTED COMMENTARIES 165
1．On William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 165
2．On John Donne's A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning 170
3．On William Blake's The Little Black Boy 175
4．On William Wordsworth's She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways 181
5．On Robert Browning's My Last Duchess 184
6．On Thomas Hardy's The Oxen 189
7．On G.M. Hopkins's The Windhover 198
8．On W.B. Yeats's Sailing to Bvzantium 205
9．On Philip Larkin's Broadcast 209
10．On Tony Harrison's Long Distance H 213
11．On R.S. Thomas's Here 221
12．On Ted Hughes's To Paint a Water Lily 226
13．On Thom Gunn's On the Move 235
14．On Walt Whitman's A Noiseless Patient Spider 241
15．On Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 245
16．On Carl Sandburg's To the Ghost ofJohn Milton 250
17．On E.E. Cummings's in Just- 253
18．On Langston Hughes's Dream Deferred 258
GLOSSARY OF POETIC TERMS 261
BIBLIOGRAPHY 268