Preface

Part Ⅰ
Introduction Elements of Poetry

Part Ⅱ
English Poet□<□r>Chaucer， Spenser and Shakespeare
Geoffrey Chaucer： Implicit Ironist and Gullible
Appreciator ofAII Vitality
Edmund Spenser： Theoretical Asceticism and Sensuous Garden
William Shakespeare： Tragedy， Divided Mind
and Negative Capability
Metaphysical Poets and John Milton
John Donne： The Inventor of Metaphysical Conceit
Andrew Marvell： The Mower as Death and Lover
George Herbert： The Banquet of Sacred Devotion
John Milton： Satan as the Tragic Hero
Early Romantic Poet□<□r>William Blake： The Visionary Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Samuel Coleridge： Christian Redemption and Diabolical Poetic□<□r>William Wordsworth： Divinized and Fallen Nature
Later Romantic Poet□<□r>Percy Bysshe Shelley： Rhapsody ofDestructive-Creative Energy
and Disillusionment with Rousseaurian Nature
John Keats： Priesthood of the Mortal World
George Gordon Byron： The Ingenious Ironist and the
Postmodern Text ofDon Juan
Late Victorian Poets： Tennyson， Browning and Hardy
Alfred Lord Tennyson： The Melancholy of Solipsistic Artist
Robert Browning： Dramatic Monologue and Atomized Self
Thomas Hardy： The Tragedy of Will-to-Live
Early □0th Century Modernists： Yeat□，<□r>Eliot and Dylan Thoma□<□r>William Butler Yeats： From the Romantic Lyricist
to the Occult Visionary
T．S． Eliot： Making Past Fragments into Modern Myth
Dylan Thomas： The Cosmic Significance of Human Anatomy

Part Ⅲ
American Poet□<□r>Whitman and Dickinson
Walt Whitman： The Great Unifier and Cosmic Self
Emily Dickinson： Anxiety， Nothingness and Being
Early □0th Century Modernist□<□r>Ezra Pound： Translator as Inventor of Modern Poetic□<□r>William Carlos Williams： From European Modernist
Art to a New American Poetic□<□r>Marianna Moore： "Imaginary Gardens with Real Toad□"<□r>Elizabeth Bishop： The Juxtaposition of the Quotidian
and the Catastrophic， the Precise and the Fantastic
Stevens， Robert Frost and Robert Bly
Wallace Stevens： The Necessary Angel oflmagination
vs Zen Poetic□<□r>Robert Frost： Traditional Folklore and Hidden
Vision of Darknes□<□r>Robert Bly： The Underground Imagery and Taoist Poetic□<□r>……