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
Thom 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 )
4. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost ( 1874 - 1963 )
5. Morning at the Window
Thomas Stearns 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 H
11. On R. S, Thomas's Here
12. On Ted Hughes's To Paint a Water Lily
13. On Thorn 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
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