Contents Preface Acknowledgments Part One English Poets and Their Classic Works Chapter 1 Geoffrey Chaucer: General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales 3 I. Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer 3 II. Background Knowledge about The Canterbury Tales 4 III. Selected Readings and Notes 5 IV. Themes and Poetic Styles 9 V. Critical Thinking and Discussion 11 VI. Translation Practice 11 VII. Creative Writing 12 VIII. Extended Reading 12 Chapter 2 William Shakespeare: Sonnet 1 / Sonnet 18 / Sonnet 145 / Sonnet 154 13 I. Introduction to William Shakespeare 13 II. Background Knowledge about Shakespeare’s Sonnets 14 III. Selected Readings and Notes 15 IV. Themes and Poetic Styles 18 V. Critical Thinking and Discussion 20 VI. Translation Practice 20 VII. Creative Writing 21 VIII. Extended Reading 21 Chapter 3 John Milton: An Excerpt of Paradise Lost 22 I. Introduction to John Milton 22 II. Background Knowledge about Paradise Lost 23 III. Selected Readings and Notes 24 IV. Themes and Poetic Styles 28 V. Critical Thinking and Discussion 30 VI. Translation Practice 31 VII. Creative Writing 32 VIII. Extended Reading 32 Chapter 4 Alexander Pope: An Excerpt of An Essay on Criticism 33 I. Introduction to Alexander Pope 33 II. Background Knowledge about An Essay on Criticism 34 III. Selected Readings and Notes 35 IV. Themes and Poetic Styles 38 V. Critical Thinking and Discussion 40 VI. Translation Practice 41 VII. Creative Writing 41 VIII. Extended Reading 41 Chapter 5 William Blake: “The Tyger” / “Earth’s Answer” / “The Chimney Sweeper” 43 I. Introduction to William Blake 43 II. Background Knowledge about William Blake’s Poetry 44 III. Selected Readings and Notes 45 IV. Themes and Poetic Styles 47 V. Critical Thinking and Discussion 49 VI. Translation Practice 50 VII. Creative Writing 51 VIII. Extended Reading 51 Chapter 6 William Wordsworth: “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” / “The Solitary Reaper” / “O Nightingale! Thou Surely Art” 52 I. Introduction to William Wordsworth 52 II. Background Knowledge about William Wordsworth’s Poetry 53 III. Selected Readings and Notes 54 IV. Themes and Poetic Styles 57 V. Critical Thinking and Discussion 58 VI. Translation Practice 59 VII. Creative Writing 60 VIII. Extended Reading 60 Chapter 7 Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Ode to the West Wind” / “To a Skylark” 61 I. Introduction to Percy Bysshe Shelley 61 II. Background Knowledge about Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Poetry 62 III. Selected Readings and Notes 63 IV. Themes and Poetic Styles 69 V. Critical Thinking and Discussion 71 VI. Translation Practice 72 VII. Creative Writing 72 VIII. Extended Reading 73 Chapter 8 John Keats: “Ode on a Grecian Urn” / “Ode to a Nightingale” 74 I. Introduction to John Keats 74 II. Background Knowledge about John Keats’s Poetry 75 III. Selected Readings and Notes 76 IV. Themes and Poetic Styles 80 V. Critical Thinking and Discussion 82 VI. Translation Practice 83 VII. Creative Writing 84 VIII. Extended Reading 84 Chapter 9 Robert Browning: “A Woman’s Last Word” / “My Last Duchess” 85 I. Introduction to Robert Browning 85 II. Background Knowledge about Robert Browning’s Poetry 86 III. Selected Readings and Notes 87 IV. Themes and Poetic Styles 90 V. Critical Thinking and Discussion 92 VI. Translation Practice 92 VII. Creative Writing 93 VIII. Extended Reading 93 Chapter 10 William Butler Yeats: “When You Are Old” / “Sailing to Byzantium” / “Leda and the Swan” 95 I. Introduction to William Butler Yeats 95 II. Background Knowledge about William Butler Yeats’s Poetry 96 III. Selected Readings and Notes 97 IV. Themes and Poetic Styles 99 V. Critical Thinking and Discussion 101 VI. Translation Practice 101 VII. Creative Writing 102 VIII. Extended Reading 103 Part Two American Poets and Their Classic Works Chapter 11 Anne Bradstreet: “A Love Letter to Her Husband” / “The Vanity of All Worldly Things” 107 I. Introduction to Anne Bradstreet 107 II. Background Knowledge about Anne Bradstreet’s Poetry 108 III. Selected Readings and Notes 109 IV. Themes and Poetic Styles 111 V. Critical Thinking and Discussion 114 VI. Translation Practice 114 VII. Creative Writing 115 VIII. Extended Reading 115 Chapter 12 Philip Freneau: “The Wild Honey Suckle” / “The American Soldier” / “The Indian Burying Ground” 116 I. Introduction to Philip Freneau 116 II. Background Knowledge about Philip Freneau’s Poetry 117 III. Selected Readings and Notes 118 IV. Themes and Poetic Styles 120 V. Critical Thinking and Discussion 122 VI. Translation Practice 123 VII. Creative Writing 123 VIII. Extended Reading 124 Chapter 13 Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Days” / “Concord Hymn” / “Song of Nature” 125 I. Introduction to Ralph Waldo Emerson 125 II. Background Knowledge about Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Poetry 126 III. Selected Readings and Notes 127 IV. Themes and Poetic Styles 131 V. Critical Thinking and Discussion 133 VI. Translation Practice 134 VII. Creative Writing 135 VIII. Extended Reading 135 Chapter 14 Walt Whitman: “Song of Myself” / “O Captain! My Captain!” / “I Hear America Singing” 136 I. Introduction to Walt Whitman 136 II. Background Knowledge about Walt Whitman’s Poetry 137 III. Selected Readings and Notes 138 IV. Themes and Poetic Styles 142 V. Critical Thinking and Discussion 144 VI. Translation Practice 144 VII. Creative Writing 145 VIII. Extended Reading 145 Chapter 15 Emily Dickinson: “Nobody Knows This Little Rose” / “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass” / “I Died for Beauty — But Was Scarce” / “I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed” 146 I. Introduction to Emily Dickinson 146 II. Background Knowledge about Emily Dickinson’s Poetry 147 III. Selected Readings and Notes 148 IV. Themes and Poetic Styles 150 V. Critical Thinking and Discussion 153 VI. Translation Practice 153 VII. Creative Writing 154 VIII. Extended Reading 154 Chapter 16 Ezra Pound: “In a Station of the Metro” / “The Jewel Stair’s Grievance” / Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Excerpt of Part I) / “Canto 49” 156 I. Introduction to Ezra Pound 156 II. Background Knowledge about Ezra Pound’s Poetry 157 III. Selected Readings and Notes 158 IV. Themes and Poetic Styles 162 V. Critical Thinking and Discussion 165 VI. Translation Practice 165 VII. Creative Writing 166 VIII. Extended Reading 167 Chapter 17 T. S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” / “The Waste Land” (Excerpt) 168 I. Introduction to T. S. Eliot 168 II. Background Knowledge about T. S. Eliot’s Poetry 169 III. Selected Readings and Notes 170 IV. Themes and Poetic Styles 181 V. Critical Thinking and Discussion 183 VI. Translation Practice 184 VII. Creative Writing 185 VIII. Extended Reading 185 Chapter 18 Langston Hughes: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” / “My People” / “Let America Be America Again” 186 I. Introduction to Langston Hughes 186 II. Background Knowledge about Langston Hughes’s Poetry 187 III. Selected Readings and Notes 188 IV. Themes and Poetic Styles 192 V. Critical Thinking and Discussion 194 VI. Translation Practice 194 VII. Creative Writing 195 VIII. Extended Reading 195 Chapter 19 Sylvia Plath: “The Arrival of the Bee Box” / “November Graveyard” / “Daddy” 196 I. Introduction to Sylvia Plath 196 II. Background Knowledge about Sylvia Plath’s Poetry 197 III. Selected Readings and Notes 198 IV. Themes and Poetic Styles 202 V. Critical Thinking and Discussion 204 VI. Translation Practice 204 VII. Creative Writing 205 VIII. Extended Reading 205 Chapter 20 Gary Snyder: “How Poetry Comes to Me” / “Meeting the Mountains” / “Riprap” / “Mother Earth: Her Whales” 207 I. Introduction to Gary Snyder 207 II. Background Knowledge about Gary Snyder’s Poetry 208 III. Selected Readings and Notes 209 IV. Themes and Poetic Styles 213 V. Critical Thinking and Discussion 215 VI. Translation Practice 216 VII. Creative Writing 217 VIII. Extended Reading 217 References 219
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