◆Course Description:

The purpose of this course is to enable students to read various kinds of English poetry with understanding and appreciation. The course is not primarily historical, though poems from the 16th into the 20th century will be sampled. We shall do a lot of close readings of poetry in the lectures with emphasis on both the poetic language and poetic forms. Representative British and American poets like William Shakespeare, John Milton, John Donne, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost will be focused respectively in each lecture. Such poetic forms as lyric, epic, and dramatic poetry will be discussed, while such poetic elements as rhythm and meter, figurative language, stanzaic forms will be carefully explored in poetry analysis in the lectures. Students are encouraged to practice reading aloud or even to learn by heart all the poems discussed in the course.

Poetry may be difficult, but it can also be intensely rewarding. The pleasure of reading poetry derives from the beauty of the language—the delight of the sounds and the images—as well as the power of the emotion and the depth of the insight of the poems. Poems are written to bring us a sense of life, while widening and sharpening our contact with human existence. Poets create significant new experiences for the reader, producing a greater awareness and understanding of the world. Poetry broadens our experience by acquainting us with a wide range of experiences we don’t often have in our ordinary life. It also deepens our experience by making us feel more intensely and with better understanding of our everyday experiences. Poetry, therefore,delights and instructs at the same time

◆课程描述：

本课程可以作为英语专业选修课、非英美文学方向研究生选修课和大学英语高年级选修课程。教学内容选用16-20世纪英美诗歌名作；旨在让学生了解英诗要素，如意象、节奏、格律、修辞等；阅读莎士比亚、弥尔顿、邓恩、华兹华斯、济慈、布朗宁等英国著名诗人代表作品和惠特曼、狄金森、弗罗斯特等美国诗人代表诗作；挖掘诗歌主题以及诗化主题的艺术形式；从宏观角度揭示英美诗史脉络，讲解力求精练而不失其精要；从微观角度鞭辟入里地讲解名诗（片段），给学生一种豁然开朗又丝丝入扣的认知体验，达到引领学生进行英诗艺术审美体验，提高对英语语言的感受力和英美文学的鉴赏能力，拓展英美文学与文化知识，增强外语学习的文化意识，陶冶情操，提高人文素质。

◆Syllabus

Week One: Course Introduction

1.      Why do we Read Poetry?

2.      A Brief Introduction to Poetry

3.      A Brief History of British and American Poetry

Week Two: British Renaissance Poetry

1.      An Introduction to Renaissance and 16^th Century Poetry

2.      Edmund Spenser:

Edmund Spenser’s Life and Works

Edmund Spenser’s Sonnet 75 (“One day I wrote her name upon the strand”)

3.      William Shakespeare:

William Shakespeare’s Life and Works

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”)

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 (“That time of year thou mayst in me behold”)

Week Three: British Metaphysical Poetry & John Milton’s Poetry

1.        An Introduction to Early 17^th Century Poetry

2.        John Donne:

John Donne’s Life and Works

John Donne’s “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”

John Donne’s Holy Sonnet X (“Death, be not proud, though some have called thee”)

3.        John Milton:

John Milton’s Life and Works

John Milton’s Sonnet 19 (“When I consider how my light is spent”)

Week Four: British Romantic Poetry

1.      An Introduction to Romanticism and Early 19^th Century Poetry

2.      William Wordsworth:

William Wordsworth’s Life and Works

William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

3.      John Keats:

John Keats’ Life and Works

John Keats’ “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”

John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

Week Five: British Victorian Poetry & American Romantic Poetry

1.      An Introduction to Late 19^th Century British Poetry

2.      Alfred Tennyson:

Alfred Tennyson’s Life and Works

Alfred Tennyson’s “The Eagle Fragment”

Alfred Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar”

3.      An Introduction to New England Transcendentalism

4.      Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman’s Life and Works

Walt Whitman’s “One’s Self I Sing”

Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”

Walt Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain! ”

Week Six: American Romantic Poetry

1.      An Introduction to 19^th Century American Poetry

2.      Edgar Allan Poe:

Edgar Allan Poe’s Life and Works

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”

Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee”

3.      Emily Dickinson:

Emily Dickinson’s Life and Works

Emily Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody, Who Are You?”

Emily Dickinson’s “This is My Letter to the World”

Emily Dickinson’s “The Soul Selects Her Own Society”

Week Seven: American Romantic Poetry & Modern British Poetry

1.      Emily Dickinson:

Emily Dickinson’s “I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I Died”

Emily Dickinson’s “Tell All the Truth But Tell it Slant”

2.      An Introduction to Modernism and Early 20^th Century British Poetry

3.      William Butler Yeats:

William Butler Yeats’ Life and Works

William Butler Yeats’ “The Second Coming”

William Butler Yeats’ “Sailing to Byzantium”

Week Eight: Modern American Poetry

1.      An Introduction to Modernism and American Poetry Between the World Wars

2.      Robert Frost:

Robert Frost’s Life and Works

Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

Robert Frost’s “The Road not Taken”

3.      Ezra Pound:

Ezra Pound’s Life and Works

Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro”;

4.      T. S. Eliot:

T. S. Eliot’s Life and Works

T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

1 .本课程理论知识,文本解读和文本鉴赏相结合，以诗歌解读为主，同时采取线上线下教学相结合。

2. 本课程内容覆盖面大， 主要采取任务型、研究式方法进行教学。文本阅读的部分以学生课外自学为主，课堂上以讲解、讨论、归纳相结合；课堂外完成小论文2篇。

3．本课程在结束前以开卷考试或课程论文为主要测试方式对学生进行考核。其中，考试成绩占60%，平时成绩占40%。

4.成绩评定：百分制。

 学习起点：

     作为一门高校英语通识教育课程，本课程可以用作英语专业、非英语专业高年级学生和非英美文学方向研究生的一门选修课程。

     Designed to meet the demands of general education in English among colleges and universities around the world, this course can be taken both as an elective course for English majors and non-English majors. It can also be regarded as an elective for graduate students whose research fields are not British and American literature.

Textbook/教材:

Zongying, Huang. Ed. ‍Selected Readings in British and American Poetry. ‍2nd. Ed. Beijing:

    Higher Education Press, 2014.

黄宗英编著：《英美诗歌名篇选读》（第二版），北京：高等教育出版社，2014年。

Reference Books/参考书:

Abrams, M. H. General Ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature.Vol.2. New York &

    London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1986.

Fussell, Paul. Poetic Meter and Poetic Form.New York: Random House, 1979.

Perrine, Laurence. Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry. 6th ed. New York:

    HBJ,1982.

Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan. Eds. The New PrincetonEncyclopedia of Poetry and

    Poetics. Princeton: Princeton UniversityPress, 1993.

Zongying, Huang. A Road Less Traveled By—On the Deceptive Simplicity in the Poetry of Robert Frost. Beijing: Peking University Press, 2000.

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