《英语诗歌欣赏》是“高等学校英语专业系列教材”中的一本，其编写以单元为单位，分节介绍相关英诗知识和欣赏方法。每小节分基础知识、作品选读、综合巩固三部分。本书是供高等学校英语专业或具有同等水平的英语学习者使用的英文诗歌赏析教材，旨在提高学生阅读、分析和品味诗歌的能力。全书从感性和理性两个层面专门介绍英语诗歌的相关知识；深入简出地介绍了英文诗歌欣赏的基本方法和技巧，授学习者以“渔”；介绍并具体分析了大量英美诗歌中的经典名篇，不求面面俱到，但求重点突出

Unit One How Does a Poem Work?

Section 1 Line Arrangement and Appreciation

Section 2 Words and Meanings

Section 3 Inversion and Foregrounding

Section 4 Recurrence and Patterning

Unit Two The Techniques of Verse

Section 1 Rhythm

Section 2 Meter

Section 3 Rhyme

Section 4 Sound

Unit Three Components of Poetry

Section 1 Speaker

Section 2 Setting

Section 3 Subject and Theme

Unit Four Sense of Poetry

Section 1 Abstraction and Concretion

Section 2 Image and Imagery

Unit Five Figurative Language

Section 1 The Literal and the Figurative

Section 2 Simile and Metaphor

Section 3 Personification

Section 4 Symbols

Section 5 Irony and Satire

Glossary of Poetic Terms

Key to Exercises

Bibliography