Appreciation of English and American Literature,Essay & Poetry

part one essay . 1

导读 1

i. introduction 3

ii. selected readings 6

unit 1 classic essay 6

of studies 9

of beauty 11

of wisdom for a man's self 12

unit 2 periodical essay 23

sir roger at church 26

unit 3 philosophical essay (ⅰ) 34

nature (excerpts) 38

unit 4 philosophical essay (ⅱ) 51

civil disobedience (excerpts) 53

walden, or life in the woods (excerpts) 58

unit 5 biographical essay 74

the life of milton (excerpts) 78

milton (excerpts) 84

unit 6 literary criticism and comment (ⅰ) 101

an essay on criticism (excerpts) 105

.unit 7 literary criticism and comment (ⅱ) 115

the art of fiction (excerpts) 119

part two poetry 133

导读 133

i. introduction 135

1. attempts to define poetry 135

2. the externals of poetry: versification and prosification 137

3. the internals of poetry: imagery, subject matters and themes 153

4. the genres of poetry 161

5. approaches towards poetry text analyses 164

ii. selected readings 167

unit 1 epic 167

paradise lost (excerpts) 171

unit 2 ballad .. 182

to the cuckoo 184

she dwelt among the untrodden ways 186

i travelled among unknown men 187

unit 3 sonnet 196

ozymandias 200

england in 1819 201

unit 4 elegy 208

elegy written in a country churchyard (excerpts) 212

elegy on thyrza 215

elegy 218

unit 5 ode 227

ode on a grecian urn 230

to autumn 232

ode to a nightingale 234

unit 6 dramatic monologue 248

the love song of j. alfred prufrock 251

unit 7 hymanal stanza 264

because i could not stop for death 270

the soul selects her own society 271

unit 8 lyrics (ⅰ) 279

kubla khan 282

unit 9 lyrics (ⅱ) 293

sailing to byzantium 299

leda and the swan 300

unit 10 lyrics (ⅲ): pastoral 311

stopping by woods on a snowy evening 315

neither out far nor in deep 316

unit 11 free verse (ⅰ) 325

song of myself 328

i sit and look out 332

unit 12 free verse (ⅱ) 339

in a station of the metro 343

dancing 344

the red wheelbarrow 345

[l(a] 345

sunset 346

后记... 357