Contents
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他山之石 可以攻玉(代序) .......................................................... xi
Part One Poetry
导读 ..........................................................................................3
I. Introduction ..................................................................... 5
1. Attempts to Define Poetry ......................................................................................5
2. The Externals of Poetry: Versification and Prosification ...........................6
3. The Internals of Poetry: Imagery, Subject Matters and Themes .........18
4. The Genres of Poetry ..............................................................................................24
5. Approaches Towards Poetry Text Analyses .................................................27
II. Selected Readings .......................................................... 29
Unit 1 Epic .................................................................................................................29
Paradise Lost ............................................................................................................ 32
Unit 2 Ballad .............................................................................................................39
To the Cuckoo .......................................................................................................... 41
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways ........................................................... 43
I Travelled Among Unknown Men ..................................................................... 44
Unit 3 Sonnet ...........................................................................................................49
Ozymandias .............................................................................................................. 53
England in 1819........................................................................................................ 54
Unit 4 Elegy ..............................................................................................................58
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ........................................................... 61
Elegy on Thyrza ....................................................................................................... 65
Elegy ........................................................................................................................... 68
Unit 5 Ode ..................................................................................................................73
Ode on a Grecian Urn ............................................................................................ 76
To Autumn ................................................................................................................ 79
Ode to a Nightingale ............................................................................................... 81
Unit 6 Dramatic Monologue ..............................................................................88
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ................................................................ 91
Unit 7 Hymanal Stanza ..................................................................................... 100
Because I Could Not Stop for Death ............................................................... 105
The Soul Selects Her Own Society ................................................................... 107
Unit 8 Lyrics (I) .................................................................................................... 111
Kubla Khan ..............................................................................................................114
Unit 9 Lyrics (II) .................................................................................................. 120
Sailing to Byzantium.............................................................................................124
Leda and the Swan ................................................................................................ 127
Unit 10 Lyrics (III): Pastoral .............................................................................. 132
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ........................................................ 135
Neither out Far nor in Deep ................................................................................ 136
Unit 11 Free Verse (I) ........................................................................................... 142
Song of Myself ........................................................................................................ 144
I Sit and Look Out ................................................................................................ 148
Unit 12 Free Verse (II) ......................................................................................... 152
In a Station of the Metro ......................................................................................155
Dancing ....................................................................................................................156
The Red Wheelbarrow ........................................................................................ 157
[L(a] ...........................................................................................................................158
Sunset .......................................................................................................................159
Contents
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Unit 13 Asian American Poetry ...................................................................... 164
Eating Alone ........................................................................................................... 168
Part Two Drama
导读 ......................................................................................175
I. Introduction ................................................................. 183
II. Selected Readings ........................................................ 191
Unit 1 Tragedy (I) ................................................................................................ 191
King Lear ................................................................................................................. 194
The British Camp, near Dover........................................................................... 195
Unit 2 Tragedy (II) .............................................................................................. 214
Death of a Salesman ............................................................................................. 219
Unit 3 Comedy (I) ................................................................................................ 247
August Does His Bit: A True-to-life Farce .......................................................249
Unit 4 Comedy (II) .............................................................................................. 274
Ah, Wilderness .......................................................................................................279
Unit 5 Drama of Modernism (I) .................................................................... 295
Look Back in Anger ..............................................................................................299
Unit 6 Drama of Modernism (II) ................................................................... 313
The Glass Menagerie ............................................................................................ 316
Part Three Essay
导读 ......................................................................................339
I. Introduction ................................................................. 340
II. Selected Readings ........................................................ 343
Unit 1 Classic Essay ............................................................................................ 343
Of Studies ................................................................................................................345
Of Beauty .................................................................................................................347
Of Wisdom for a Man’s Self ................................................................................349
Unit 2 Periodical Essay ..................................................................................... 354
Sir Roger at Church ..............................................................................................357
Unit 3 Philosophical Essay (I) ........................................................................ 362
Nature .......................................................................................................................365
Unit 4 Philosophical Essay (II) ...................................................................... 375
Civil Disobedience ................................................................................................ 377
Walden, or Life in the Woods .............................................................................382
Unit 5 Biographical Essay ................................................................................ 392
The Life of Milton .................................................................................................396
Milton ....................................................................................................................... 401
Unit 6 Literary Criticism and Comment (I) .............................................. 411
An Essay on Criticism .......................................................................................... 414
Unit 7 Literary Criticism and Comment (II) ............................................ 421
The Art of Fiction ..................................................................................................424
Unit 8 Literary Criticism and Comment (III) ........................................... 434
The Philosophy of Composition ........................................................................436