Preface Part Ⅰ Introduction Elements of Poetry Part Ⅱ English Poets Chaucer, Spenser and Shakespeare Geoffrey Chaucer: Implicit Ironist and Gullible Appreciator ofAII Vitality Edmund Spenser: Theoretical Asceticism and Sensuous Garden William Shakespeare: Tragedy, Divided Mind and Negative Capability Metaphysical Poets and John Milton John Donne: The Inventor of Metaphysical Conceit Andrew Marvell: The Mower as Death and Lover George Herbert: The Banquet of Sacred Devotion John Milton: Satan as the Tragic Hero Early Romantic Poets William Blake: The Visionary Marriage of Heaven and Hell Samuel Coleridge: Christian Redemption and Diabolical Poetics William Wordsworth: Divinized and Fallen Nature Later Romantic Poets Percy Bysshe Shelley: Rhapsody ofDestructive-Creative Energy and Disillusionment with Rousseaurian Nature John Keats: Priesthood of the Mortal World George Gordon Byron: The Ingenious Ironist and the Postmodern Text ofDon Juan Late Victorian Poets: Tennyson, Browning and Hardy Alfred Lord Tennyson: The Melancholy of Solipsistic Artist Robert Browning: Dramatic Monologue and Atomized Self Thomas Hardy: The Tragedy of Will-to-Live Early 20th Century Modernists: Yeats, Eliot and Dylan Thomas William Butler Yeats: From the Romantic Lyricist to the Occult Visionary T.S. Eliot: Making Past Fragments into Modern Myth Dylan Thomas: The Cosmic Significance of Human Anatomy Part Ⅲ American Poets Whitman and Dickinson Walt Whitman: The Great Unifier and Cosmic Self Emily Dickinson: Anxiety, Nothingness and Being Early 20th Century Modernists Ezra Pound: Translator as Inventor of Modern Poetics William Carlos Williams: From European Modernist Art to a New American Poetics Marianna Moore: Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads Elizabeth Bishop: The Juxtaposition of the Quotidian and the Catastrophic, the Precise and the Fantastic Stevens, Robert Frost and Robert Bly Wallace Stevens: The Necessary Angel oflmagination vs Zen Poetics Robert Frost: Traditional Folklore and Hidden Vision of Darkness Robert Bly: The Underground Imagery and Taoist Poetics ……