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 Poetryreading Courses. 3.2 Features of This Book 3.3 Tentative Syllabi for English Poetryreading 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 (156-71620) 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 Herriek (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.Yl.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'sSelf I Sing Song of Myself [Sections 12, 56, 1011, 24] O Captain! My Captain! 28.Mathew Arnold (1822-1888) Dover Beach 29.Emily Dickinson (18301886) I'm Nobody! Who Are You? (260) \