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 Hard (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)