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)
4.Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) 5.Moming 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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