《英美诗歌》是“新世纪高等院校英语专业本科生系列教材(修订版)”,教材编写深入浅出,内容反映了各个学科领域的*新研究成果;在编写宗旨上,除了帮助学生打下扎实的语言基本功外,着力培养学生分析问题、解决问题的能力,提高学生的思辨能力和人文、科学素养,培养健康向上的人生观,使学生真正成为我国新时代所需要的英语专门人才。

Poetry is a form of speech,or discourse in which the expression of thoughts and feelings or the description of places and events is given intensity by particular attention to diction,rhyme,rhythm,and imagery.In short, the difference between poetic speech and other forms is more one of degree than of kind; poetry is an art of condensation and implication, saying most in the fewest words, but a line of poetry is like dancing——the words have definite positions in time and space. The aim of this book is to introduce college students to the appreciation and experience of poetry.
我国英语专业本科教学与学科建设,伴随着我国改革开放的步伐,得到了长足的发展和提升。回顾这30多年英语专业教学改革和发展的历程,无论是英语专业教学大纲的制订、颁布、实施和修订,还是四、八级考试的开发与推行,以及多项英语教学改革项目的开拓,无不是围绕英语专业的学科建设和人才培养而进行的,正如《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》提出的英语专业的培养目标,即培养“具有扎实的英语语言基础和广博的文化知识并能熟练地运用英语在外事、教育、经贸、文化、科技、军事等部门从事翻译、教学、管理、研究等工作的复合型英语人才。”为促进英语专业本科建设的发展和教学质量的提高,外语专业教学指导委员会还实施了“新世纪教育质量改革工程”,包括推行“十五”、“十一五”**级教材规划和外语专业**精品课程评审,从各个教学环节加强对外语教学质量的宏观监控,从而确保为我国的经济建设输送大量的**人才。
跨入新世纪,英语专业的建设面临新的形势和任务:经济全球化、科技一体化、文化多元化、信息网络化的发展趋势加快,世界各国之间的竞争日趋激烈,这对我国英语专业本科教学理念和培养目标提出了新的挑战;大学英语教学改革如火如荼;数字化、网络化等多媒体教学辅助手段在外语教学中广泛应用和不断发展;英语专业本科教育的改革和学科建设也呈现出多样化的趋势,翻译专业、商务英语专业相继诞生——这些变化和发展无疑对英语专业的学科定位、人才培养以及教材建设提出了新的、更高的要求。

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

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“新世纪高等院校英语专业本科生系列教材(修订版)”旨在打造完整的英语专业学科体系,全面促进学生的语言技能、学科素养和创新能力的培养,必将为我国培养国际化、创新型、高素质的英语专业人才奠定坚实的基础!
权威性和先进性的体现:按照《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》提出的培养目标、课程设置、教学要求和教学原则精心设计,凝聚海内外英语专业教育界专家学者的智慧,反映英语专业教育、科研的*新成果。
前瞻性和创新性的结晶:基于广泛的市场调研、详尽的需求分析和严谨的科学判断,梳理现有教程,优化教材结构,更新教学方法和手段,强化学生综合能力的培养。
专业素质和人文素养的同步提升:专业技能、专业知识、相关专业知识的**匹配,帮助学生打下扎实的语言基本功,增强其分析问题、解决问题的能力,提高专业素质和人文素养,使学生真正成为国际化、创新型、高素质的英语专业人才。