目录 Part One Entree to English Poetry I. What is poetry? Ⅱ. The Function of Poetry Ⅲ. Major Types of Poetry Ⅳ. Elements of Poetry Ⅴ. How to Read a Poem? Part Two British Poetry 1. Edmund Spenser 2. Christopher Marlowe 3. William Shakespeare 4. Ben Jonson 5. John Donne 6. Robert Herrick 7. George Herbert 8. John Milton 9. Richard Lovelace 10. Andrew Marvell 11. Alexander Pope 12. Thomas Gray 13. William Blake 14. Robert Burns 15. William Wordsworth 16. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 17. George Gordon Byron 18. Percy Bysshe Shelley 19. John Keats 20. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 21. Alfred Tennyson 22. Robert Browning 23. Matthew Arnold 24. Christina Georgina Rossetti 25. Thomas Hardy 26. Gerard Manley Hopkins 27. William Butler Yeats 28. Wystan Hugh Auden 29. Dylan Thomas 30. Philip Larkin 31. Ted Hughes 32. Seamus Heaney Part Three American Poetry 1. Anne Bradstreet 2. William Cullen Bryant 3. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 4. Edgar Allan Poe 5. Walt Whitman 6. Emily Dickinson 7. Robert Frost 8. Carl Sandburg 9. Wallace Stevens 10. William Carlos Williams 11. Ezra Pound 12. T. S. Eliot 13. E. E. Cummings 14. Langston Hughes 15. Elizabeth Bishop 16. Randall Jarrell 17. Robert Lowell 18. Allen Ginsberg 19. Anne Sexton 20. Sylvia Plath Bibliography
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